Middle class houses with arcades surround the rectangular Market Square with the measurements of 140x65 metres. Where there used to be the eastern and a part of the northern frontage damaged in 1945, at the beginning of 1960ties there were built some buildings designed by S. Müller.
In the tenement house no. 24 (on the corner of Market Square and Klasztorna Street) there used to live Hennrieta Hanke (1785– 1862) the author of a number of romances extremely famous at that time. In the southern frontage you can find the oldest buildings coming from XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries. One of the most interesting is house no. 23 with a characteristic bay window.
In the western frontage there is the house no. 8 with a beehive on the elevation. The very decoration is a symbol of ginger bread which was baked in Jawor since at least the half of XVIII century, and which were extremely popular among citizens of Jawor and the whole Lower Silesia.

View a gallery: The Market Square Tenement Houses