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Bridge Street, WORKSOP, S80 1HS

These are all Listed Grade II. The two nearer buildings are: 132/132a Bridge Street, mid 18th century house of 5 bays with later shopfronts from either side of 1900; 130-126 Bridge Street, 4 bay house dated 1761, converted to retail use with modern shop front.

This historic inn has unfortunately been out of use for some time. The extended bay on the corner is 20th century, but beyond this the building is a timber framed structure dating back to the 16th century, of which a number of internal features also survive. Listed Grade II*.

The latest version of the Savoy cinema is adjacent to the former town hall, in the former Market Square area. It opened in 2012 and is a ‘six screens’ establishment. Its predecessor, in Gatefold Road, existed between 1914-1960, using ‘The Savoy’ as its name from 1940 onwards and is now home to a post office.

This parade of shops and The Old Ship Inn are situated obliquely opposite "The Savoy" cinema. The Grade II* listed inn, currently for sale, is Elizabethan dating from the late C16th. It was restored to its near original form in 1938, when a rear wing, parallel with Westgate, was added.

Although parts of the Listed Grade II* Ship Inn are timber framed dating back to the late 16th Century, this wing was not added until 1938.

Town Hall on the left

This has been moved from its position on the Market Place corner of Potter Street and Bridge Street. Listed Grade II.

The Town Hall, formerly the Corn Exchange, is believed to have been designed - in Italian style - in 1851 by Isaac Charles Gilbert, a Nottingham architect. (In passing, during the mid-1860s Watson Fothergill, the well-known Nottingham architect worked for 18 months as an assistant to Isaac Charles Gilbert in Clinton Street, Nottingham). In the past, monthly County Court sessions were also held here and Magistrates’ Court sessions on alternate Wednesdays. The local Board of Health meetings were held here too. The building changed from being the Corn Exchange to the Town Hall in 1895 when the local Board of Health was replaced by the Worksop Urban District Council. At that time the top floor of the building contained a spacious assembly room that was used for the court sessions, but also for concerts, lectures, etc. At the rear of the building, a butchers’ shambles could once be found and the market was here held in front of the building until the opening of Queen’s Buildings in 1981. The front of the building (facing Potter Street, on the pedestrian's right) was renovated between 1983-85 during which time the town hall steps were removed, the front arches converted into windows and the main entrance to the new town hall was moved to the side of the building facing its courtyard/car park.