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The first municipal building in the town was a market hall which dated back at least to the 16th century: it was adjacent to the market cross, which was stood at the east end of the Market Place, and was flanked by two rows of stalls known as the
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windows respectively. The west elevation also featured an oriel window while the east elevation featured a three-light mullioned window. In the 19th century, the assembly room on the first floor was used as the meeting place of the improvement commissioners.
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North Street, commissioned a complete "reconstruction and reconditioning" of the building in 1937. Following local government reorganisation in 1974, the successor local authority,
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plan and was arcaded on the ground floor so that markets could be held, with an assembly hall on the first floor: it was described in the
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on the first floor and a coat of arms in the gable. The flanking bays and the outer bays were fenestrated by two-light and three-light
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hall was considered to be "disfiguring the Market Place" and, following implantation of the Oundle
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decided to demolish the market hall, the market cross and the
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stone and was completed in 1830. The building was laid out to a
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