Weigh House

Therefore, weigh houses would often be near a market square or town centre.

From the 17th century onwards it was the main weigh house.

As a market square, the Dam had a weigh house that can be seen in some old paintings.

The museum is located inside Brielle's former weigh house and local prison, built in 1623.

At the lock are historic merchant houses and village has a weigh house.

Once a price was agreed, the porters would carry the cheese to the weighing house and complete the sale.

In the early 17th century, the former city gate was repurposed as a weigh house, a public building where various goods were weighed.

After falling into disuse as a weigh house, the Waag served a range of different functions.

The cafe over the Weigh House was delightful; it had somehow caught the atmosphere of the little town.

The large square in front of the 14th-century Waaggebouw or weigh house becomes a showcase of cheese.

The boats were weighed at Midford where a Weigh house was constructed in 1831.

The weigh house and goods shed survive.

By 1668, the Regulierspoort housed a Waaggebouw or weigh house.

The weigh house at Midford was one of only four known to have been built in England and Wales.

You'll see the Weigh House across the street--I'll be there two hours from now.

She found a bookshop easily enough, pausing on her way to look at the old gabled houses and the Weigh House.

The relatively sizeable goods yard had a weighing house, coal yard and cattle pens.

A weigh house or weighing house is a public building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.

The Waag ("weigh house") is a 15th-century building on Nieuwmarkt square in Amsterdam.

She went and leaned on the railings by the Weigh House, staring at nothing, wondering why she felt so dispirited.

The weigh house masters needed to be able to judge the correct measure of a shipload of grain that was delivered in Haarlem.

It possesses a seventeenth-century weigh house, once used by merchants and port officials, and a bell tower that dates from 1591.

The building is an old weigh house that was designed by architect C.J. von Heideken.

We can have coffee at that place over the Weigh House--unless you can think of anywhere you'd rather go."

She turned her steps towards the Weigh House, because it was Friday and May and the cheese market would be in full swing.