What appears from The Square to be a modest three-bay facade is in fact the front section of a long L-shaped structure that wraps around the corner and extends down Pound Street for a further nine bays, its ground floor punctuated by a row of arched openings, three of which serve as doorways. The front elevation retains an arcade of three cut-stone arches at street level, the kind of open covered walkway that once allowed traders to conduct business in partial shelter. That space has long since been enclosed, with a doorway inserted into the leftmost arch, and the building now operates in mixed use, its original commercial logic visible only in outline.

The structure dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, a period when planned market towns across Ireland were being given architectural expression through exactly this type of civic building. Ashlar construction, in which stone is cut and dressed to produce smooth, regular blocks, gives the facade a formal, deliberate quality unusual for a market building. A broad string-course, a horizontal band of projecting masonry, runs along both visible elevations, cleanly dividing the ground floor from the first. The front roofline is hipped, meaning it slopes on all sides rather than ending in a gable, and a deep projecting cornice adds further formality to what might otherwise be a purely functional structure. The side elevation on Pound Street is plainer and gable-ended, its rhythm of arched window and door openings suggesting the practical requirements of market-day loading and entry rather than civic display.