9 And 9A, Market Place

Nos 9 and 9A on Market Place is a house, now divided into flats and a shop, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, with later alterations and additions at the rear. The building is constructed of brick and features rendered stacks and pantile roofs. The layout includes a single room with an entrance hall on the left and a carriage entrance on the right, along with a later wing at the rear left. It stands three storeys high with three first-floor windows.

The façade has a plinth and a six-panel door, which has four panes above two fielded panels, along with a plain overlight set in an architrave beneath a channelled and keyed wedge lintel. The early 19th-century shop front is double-bowed, featuring a blocked former entrance flanked by bow windows with glazing bars, supported on timber brackets, and topped with a bowed entablature that has a beaded fillet and moulded cornice. The carriage entrance is segmental-arched. The first-floor windows are sixteen-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills and channelled and keyed wedge lintels, while the second-floor windows are twelve-pane sashes in similar surrounds. The building has stepped eaves, stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers, and end stacks.

The rear wing, designated as No 9A, is two storeys high and has three bays. It features a six-panel door, a 20th-century door in a partly-blocked opening, and sixteen-pane flush sashes beneath channelled and keyed stucco flat arches, along with a stone-coped gable with shaped kneelers.

Inside No 9, there are sections of staircase balustrade with a ramped corniced handrail and column balusters, ribbed plaster cornices, and an acanthus ceiling rose on the first floor, although the interior has not been fully investigated.