His grandson, also Walter, was accused in 1540 of treason and perversion, and King Henry VIII had him executed alongside his patron Thomas Cromwell.

It finally passed down the family to Sir Edward Hungerford (1632–1711), created a Knight of the Order of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II.

Hungerford Inn, or seemingly the burned-out remains of it, was subdivided into shops and with a covered piazza, formed the market.

[5] All the existing buildings were demolished, and a new structure was built in 1831-3 to an Italianate design by Charles Fowler, the architect of Covent Garden Market.

The lower level of the site was occupied by a fish market, consisting of an open court, 130 feet long, with two tiers of colonnaded galleries on each side.

[6] Fowler later built an iron roof over the open court to protect the fishmongers' stalls [6] and two end pavilions towards the river were used as taverns.

[5] At the northern end of this lower court a flight of steps led to the upper level, which was elevated over storage vaults.

The Great Hall, an aisled timber-roofed building 160 feet long, housed a fruit and vegetable market.

In the same year of 1851, the Swiss-Italian entrepreneur Carlo Gatti opened a stand at the market selling pastries and ice cream, priced at one penny and served in a shell.