Guildhall Street
A short street beside the Guildhall, once the home of the town's meat market.
Guildhall Street leaves the south-east corner of Market Hill, where it meets Petty Cury, and runs south until it becomes the cul-de-sac of Guildhall Place at the junction with Wheeler Street. The street takes its name from the Cambridge Guildhall on its western side. On the opposite side stands the Lion Yard shopping centre.
Butcher Row
The route goes back as far as the 1500s, when the meat market gave it the name Butcher Row. Houses and stalls once lined it, though the 20th century changed it greatly. The present Guildhall is mostly of the 1930s, but local government has met on this site since the 14th century. Guildhall Place, which links the yards behind Petty Cury, shifted position when Lion Yard was built in 1975.
What to look for
Fisher House is a Grade II listed timber-framed building of the late 16th or early 17th century and houses the Catholic Chaplaincy of the University. The Red Cow pub is Grade II listed too; it dates from 1898 and is in Jacobethan style. Outdoors there is also Talos, a sculpture by Michael Ayrton made about 1960 and placed in the street around 1973.
The street is a convenient pedestrian link between the market and the Corn Exchange area; Corn Exchange Street lies close to its southern end.
Sources: Wikipedia: Guildhall Street · Wikidata: Guildhall Street (Q5615885)