Scotswood Road, Market Keeper's House

Market-keeper's house and market office. Circa 1842 by John Dobson. Sandstone ashlar;
Welsh slake roof. Symmetrical with bowed end projections. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Ground
floor arcade with keys and impost string contains 2 inserted windows and door. Sill
string to 2 tripartite windows above between long cornice brackets. On returns lower,
single-storey narrow, blank links to bowed projections containing sash windows in
plain reveals; left end obscured by adjoining warehouse. Low-pitched hipped roof has
central 2-stage clock tower, the clock under pointed hood, with open-arched top stage
which has chimneys in corner pilasters. Low half-conical roof to bowed projection at
right.Roof of left projection not visible. LISTED GRADE 2