15 Market Place, incorporating part of the Church of St Mary

House with later ground-floor shop, late C18 or early C19 with later C20 alterations.

PLAN: mid-terrace, front rectangular block with rear rectangular block, slightly displaced to the right.

MATERIALS: the front elevation is of red brick, rendered, and the rear block is of stone rubble; Welsh slate roofs.

EXTERIOR: the four-storey, single-bay building has a shallow roof of slate. There is a large window to each of the upper floors, all of which are fitted with replacement unhorned eight-over-eight sliding sash windows. There is a shopfront to the ground floor with three fascia brackets and a half-glazed door to the right of late-C19 style, but probably a late-C20 replacement.

INTERIOR: the rear wall of the front block incorporates parts of the north arcade of the Church of St Mary. Investigations in the late C20 revealed medieval squared blocks forming fragments of the arcade wall; a C13 octagonal arcade pier of diagonally-tooled sandstone ashlar, with a modified hold water base and a capital with a roll moulding and a moulded abacus. There was also a two-centred arch of two chamfered orders and traces of a second arch. Both of the arches of the C13 arcade have been blocked up, with lancet windows inserted in the blocking; these have simple chamfered surrounds and shouldered pointed rear arches.