2 And 4, Market Place

This is a house, now divided into a shop, restaurant, flat and residential use, dating to the 17th and early 18th centuries, with later 19th and 20th century alterations which include shop fronts. The front is rendered with projecting quoins and ashlar dressings, and has a roof of Welsh slate with stone gable copings. A rear wing is also present.

The main facade is three storeys high and has a four-window range on the left and a three-window range on the right. The left shop front features substantial 19th-century fluted Ionic columns, a fascia, and a modillioned cornice, with a recessed entrance and 20th-century glazing. The right shop front has more plain glazing and a large 20th-century fascia board. A central boarded passage door with a 4-pane overlight sits in a plain stone surround. The first floor has 4-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds to number 2 and plain sashes to number 4. The second floor has architraves to smaller casements to number 2 and plain sashes to number 4. A deep eaves gutter cornice is present. The steeply pitched roof has stone gable copings supported by moulded kneelers. Tall stone chimneys are at the ends.

The rear wing to number 2 is three storeys and two windows wide, and also has a two-storey, two-window range. It includes a 6-panel door, a 4-panel door, a 16-pane sash and a 4-pane sash. The rear wing to number 4 is three storeys with a basement, and spans five windows. It has a 2-panel door in a bolection moulded surround with a stone-bracketed hood, accessed by side stone steps. Plain stone surrounds are present to the basement windows, some of which are blocked. Some windows retain stone mullions, and others have architraves and broad glazing bars. A 19th-century oriel window sits above the door, and another early 19th-century sash window is on the shorter rear wing to number 2.

Internally, number 2 has a dogleg staircase with a moulded handrail and boxed balustrade. A blocked corner fireplace has had its surround removed. The roof features pegged collared trusses with two levels of off-set purlins. Number 4 has 2-panel doors on upper floors with raised fielded panels in moulded frames, and L-hinges. Some early 18th-century fielded panelling remains. At the rear of the upper flat, a 17th-century stone fireplace features deeply-cut quasi-gadroon and bullet moulding on a deep bolection moulded surround set on square panelled blocks, and an entablature with scallop moulding on the fascia. The front range roof has collared pegged A-trusses, two with bowed tie beams, two levels of purlins, and many original common rafters, with no ridge piece.