The central bay featured two round headed openings with architraves and keystones flanked by Doric order pilasters supporting an entablature and a cornice.

The outer bays were fenestrated by tall casement windows with pediments and flanked, on the outside, by Ionic order pilasters surmounted by ball finials.

At roof level there was a central panel inscribed with the words "Corn Exchange AD 1886", flanked by scrolls and surmounted by a modillioned pediment with the borough coat of arms in the tympanum.

[6] In this context, the building was briefly used as a primary school between 1904 and 1906 and was then converted for use as a cinema showing silent films, operated Ernest Symmons and known as the "Beverley Picture Playhouse", in 1911.

It re-opened again under the management of a film society in 1972 and became a commercial cinema and events venue in April 1982 but, in the face of increased competition, closed again in 2003.