A narrow market
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A narrow market
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 28 Dec 2021
This strangely narrow building is the entrance to the old Corn Market in Walcot Street. It was built in the mid-1800s and stood between the agriculrutal cattlemarket and a malthouse (later to be a tram depot). Behind it is a long, two-storey, Grade II listed structure that was once the corn market. After that it was variously used as a rifle range, youth centre and family day centre before falling into severe disuse. For many years of late it was left to rot and emergency scaffolding propped it up. However, the building was given some much-needed restoration and was put on the property market for office conversion.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.385292
Longitude
-2.359635