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Local accounts identify this site as Talat Baan Noi, a market said to date to the reign of Rama V (1868–1910) and once the location of Khao Yoi’s original district office, back when the area sat on a water trade route. What remains today is two connected structures: a timber-framed market hall and, built onto it, a two-storey shophouse building.

The market hall is built almost entirely in timber, with a hipped, clay-tiled roof carried on a heavy post-and-beam frame. Its walls are made up of tall panelled shutters — solid wood below, louvred above — that could be opened along the full length of the building, letting the stalls inside get direct light and airflow without any fixed glazing.

The attached shophouse building belongs to the Sino-Portuguese & Early Sino-Colonial period that spread through Thailand from the 1890s, as Rama V’s public-works programme pushed brick-and-tile construction into market towns that had previously built in wood and thatch. Three cast transom grilles are set into the plastered wall above each ground-floor doorway — the same ventilation role as the market hall’s shutters, filtered through the fixed masonry facade instead of an openable wooden panel. A second-floor balcony above carries a balustrade of turned, cast-concrete balusters, the building’s one real decorative flourish over an otherwise plain, unornamented front.