26, 27, 30 AND 32, MARKET PLACE (See details for further address information)

A block of five shops with offices above, dated 1904 and designed by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton, with slight alterations. The building is constructed of red brick in an English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings, some timber framing, and a red tiled roof. It occupies a curved corner site and combines Edwardian Baroque detailing with 16th-century vernacular timber framing.

The exterior is three storeys high, with a symmetrical composition of 3+3+3 bays centered on the curved corner. The ground floor has altered shop fronts, mostly with a plain frieze and moulded cornice. The first floor has windows with blocked columnar architraves, containing two, two, and three lights towards Market Street, one, one, and two lights at the corner, and three, two, and two lights towards Market Place. Banded piers are between the windows, with carved panels in the topmost band. The second floor features a central Baroque turret on the corner, with tourelles, a round-headed window with blocked colonnettes, run-out voussoirs and a keystone that rises to the scalloped corbel of an octagonal upper stage, an ogival domed roof, and a tall finial. Flanking the turret are transomed six-light windows in the outer bays.

The side ranges have slightly jettied ornamental timber framing, including a shallow canted eight-light oriel in each bay. Those facing Market Place have original wooden mullions and transoms with leaded glazing and coloured tear-drop junctions; those facing Market Street have replacement windows. Gables feature brattished jetty bressumers lettered "1904," oversailing bargeboarded verges with finials, and tall brick ridge chimneys with stone cornices.

The interior remains uninspected.

The building forms a group with number 34 and numbers 36 and 38, which are in a matching style to the right.