Above the colonnade, there was a panel with a series of pointed recesses with alternating triangular and rounded windows, separated by short pilasters.

[6] The use of the ground floor as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the Great depression of British agriculture in the late 19th century.

[4] The Castle Cary and District Museum was established at the back of a baker's shop in 1974, and then moved into the first floor of the market house a few years later.

[8][9] A room in the museum was subsequently dedicated to the life and work of Parson James Woodforde who was born at the Parsonage in nearby Ansford in 1740.

For nearly 45 years he kept a diary recording an existence the very ordinariness of which provides a unique insight into the everyday routines and concerns of 18th century rural England.