Cheese Market, Hay-on-Wye

The first municipal building in the town was a market hall which was completed in the 17th century. After the original structure became dilapidated it was demolished, and a local businessman, William Enoch, commissioned a butter market which was erected at the east end of the site: it was designed in the style of a Doric Temple, built in rubble masonry and was completed in 1833. Around the same time, the lord of the manor, Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet, whose seat was at Glanusk Park, decided to commission a combined cheese market and town hall at the west end of the same site. The new building was designed in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1835. In…