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Forres, Tytler Street, Agricultural Hall And Auction Mart

Corn Exchange (19th Century), Drill Hall (19th Century), Livestock Market (19th Century) (1867)

Site Name Forres, Tytler Street, Agricultural Hall And Auction Mart

Classification Corn Exchange (19th Century), Drill Hall (19th Century), Livestock Market (19th Century) (1867)

Alternative Name(s) Agricultural Hall; Corn Exchange; Hamilton's Auction Mart

Canmore ID 172333

Site Number NJ05NW 162

NGR NJ 03069 58821

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/172333

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
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Administrative Areas

  • Council Moray
  • Parish Forres
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Moray
  • Former County Morayshire

Site Management (27 March 2006)

Long rectangular market hall with advanced 3-bay gabled entrance to street. Coursed rubble frontage with polished ashlar dressings rubble flanks. Paired round-headed entrances under hoodmould decorated with

heads of cattle, sheep, and sheaf of corn with potato and turnip. Flanked by round-headed windows and 3 long similar windows above. Corbelled eaves course; overhanging eaves; slate roof with vent running length of hall. One pair decorative stacks survive.

Later octagonal sales ring not listed. Photograph of interior of hall in auction room office, dated 1883 and taken on occasion of County Party. Built as Agricultural Hall by Forres Agricultural Hall Joint Stock Co Ltd, originally as a corn exchange. (Historic Scotland)

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Reference (22 September 2014)

The OS Name Book records that the building is 'A handsome and Commodious stone building erected for the exhibition of cattle, impliments and agricultural produce. The Ground floor is for the exhibition of cattle while the surrounding the building on three sides is a large gallery in which produce is exhibited, outside the building is a space for impliments etc. It is also used as a drill hall and is to be used for flower shows, concertsor anything else that will please the public. It was built is 1867 and is the property of a limited Liability Co.'

Name Book 1871.

Standing Building Recording (25 April 2019)

NJ 03069 58821 A retrospective historic building record was carried out for the former sales room. The building was constructed in 1867 as an agricultural hall and was initially used as a corn exchange. It was also used for the sale of farm animals and implements; flower shows and as a drill hall.

Information from L. Fraser - AOC Archaeology Group, 2019.

(Source: DES Vol 20)

OASIS ID: aocarcha1-349847

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