535A And 535B, Market Street

SD 81 NE WHIWORTH MARKET STREET (West side)

11/247 Nos. 535A and 535B - GV II

Block of 4 small back-to-back cottages, probably late C18, altered to make 2 through-cottages. Watershot coursed sandstone, slate roof with a ridge chimney and a gable chimney. Double-depth plan, 2 bays. Two storeys, gable to road and set back behind modern shop attached to right gable; front has 2 doorways with plain surrounds, 2 stepped triple-light windows on each floor. Left end of both front and rear walls has tusking for intended continuation; left return wall has 2 small windows, and joint mark left by recently-demolished 2-privy lean-to. Rear has 2 doorways without surrounds, 3 flush mullion windows with unequal lights at ground floor, and at 1st floor a 4-light window (2 middle lights blocked) and a 3-light window. Interior: altered to make connecting doorway through axial partition; staircase in front room and evidence of former staircase in back room.

Listing NGR: SD8856118188