10 And 12, Market Place

Nos 10 and 12 Market Place is a house and shop dating from the early to mid-18th century, with late 19th-century shop fronts. The building is constructed of grey brick in Flemish bond, with red brick detailing, and has a pantile roof. Originally designed with a central entrance-hall plan featuring two or three rooms, it has been modified so that No 10 now has a single room to the right, while No 12 has been opened up for a shop, with a rear outshut.

The structure is two storeys high with an attic and consists of five bays, with the central bay being wider. It has a plinth that is rendered on the left side, and quoins. The pair of shop fronts on the left features wooden pilastered surrounds with shaped brackets and plain friezes. The shop window to the right has four lights, while the left window has three segmental-headed lights and a recessed glazed door. There is an early 19th-century segmental bow window to the right, complete with glazing bars, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice. A three-course brick band runs along the first floor, where the plate-glass sashes are set in original flush wooden architraves with red brick surrounds. The building has a dentilled wooden eaves cornice, which is somewhat damaged, and stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. The chimney stacks are truncated at the ends, with an axial stack on the right.

Inside, there is a clasped purlin collared-rafter roof, although it has not been fully investigated. The adjoining ranges at the rear are not of special interest.