Standing in the village square at Pembridge, on the site of the medieval market, is the Market Hall, the only single-storey timber-framed example in Herefordshire. It is dated between 1502 and 1538 and weekly markets and annual hiring fairs continued here until the 1920s. It still has its original ‘mark stone’. This ‘mark’, ‘march’ or ‘merch’ stone denotes where people gathered to exchange their wares and is where the word ‘market’ derives. The Market Hall’s earth floor is also original and very rare, and the eight supporting pillars are oak.
