8, Market Place

No. 8 Market Place is a former house, now a restaurant and flat, dating from the early 18th century with some early 19th-century alterations. It features painted pebble-dashed render with an ashlar plinth and dressings, and has a concrete tile roof. The building is three storeys high with one window. The entrance has a plain stone surround to a six-panel door with a plain overlight above. To the right, there is a shallow tripartite bow window with fine glazing bars in an arrangement of 8:12:8-pane sashes, supported by scroll brackets at the cornice.

On the first floor, there is a sill band beneath paired 12-pane sashes with a flat stone lintel, while the second floor has plain stone surrounds to 9-pane sashes. The stone eaves gutter cornice is present, and the roof features plain stone gable coping on the left side, along with end chimneys, the right one being raised due to the adjacent house being built to a higher level. The left return is rendered following the demolition of an adjacent building.

Inside, the ground-floor rooms have been united, and there is some late 20th-century Art Deco style stained glass. Some first-floor doors have fluted architraves with corner paterae, and the front room on this floor has stucco ceiling decoration featuring a leafy frieze and palmette band. The second floor includes two-panel doors leading to a closet at the left end of the transverse passage and to a small room in the rear wing. This latter room displays an early 18th-century Greek key fret frieze on a dado of raised fielded panels, all painted dark blue in a traditional manner. There are also some early 19th-century cast-iron fire grates, and the staircase is early 19th-century with stick balusters and a curved handrail.