Market colonisation is the gradual intrusion of buildings onto the market square, most evident where a public building eg townhouse or tolbooth was required.
Tolbooth(Scots; lit. tax booth): Tax office containing burgh council chamber and prison.TolseyAn exchange or market house; the Irish term is tholsel.Tomb-chestChest-shaped tomb, usually of stone.
 See also: House
  
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