The structure, which accommodates a health clinic, a dental practice and an online publisher, is a Category B listed building.

[1] In the mid-18th century, a group of local businessmen decided to form a company to finance and commission a new corn exchange for the town.

[3] It was designed by David Cousin in the Jacobethan style, built in rubble masonry with ashlar stone dressings at a cost of £3,000 and was opened in 1856.

[6] However, the use of the building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the Great Depression of British Agriculture in the late 19th century.

[8] It accommodated a cinema known as the "Corn Exchange Picture House", which showed silent films from 1917 until shortly before the Second World War.