5 And 7, Market Place

Nos 5 and 7 Market Place is a house that has been converted into two houses and a shop. It dates from the mid-18th century and has had alterations in the 19th century to No 5, while No 7 has unsympathetic changes from the 20th century. The building is constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond, with No 7 rendered, and has a concrete tile roof. It has a double-depth plan, likely originally designed with a two-room central entrance-hall plan, which was divided in the 19th century, with the left side converted into a shop.

The building is two storeys high and has five bays. Entrances have been inserted into the original window openings, with No 5 having its entrance in the second bay and No 7 in the fourth bay. For No 5, there are two steps leading to a 19th-century half-glazed panelled door with an overlight, set beneath a painted rubbed-brick flat arch with a projecting ashlar keystone. There is a painted ashlar sill band that dips beneath a slightly-recessed 19th-century plate-glass sash to the left, which also has a similar painted keyed flat arch above it. To the right is a 19th-century flat-roofed canted-bay shop window featuring single plate-glass windows on the front and sides, topped with a plain frieze and dentilled cornice.

For No 7, there are 19th-century steps leading to a 20th-century door, with a single inserted 20th-century casement window to the right. On the first floor, No 5 features a painted ashlar sill band, a blocked window in the third bay with a keyed ashlar architrave, and two 12-pane flush sashes beneath painted keyed flat arches. No 7 has two inserted 20th-century casements. The building has a coved eaves cornice, with short sections of the original plaster cornice surviving at the angles, while the rest has been replaced with 20th-century boards. The left gable has a stone coping with shaped kneelers and tie-bar ends bearing the initials 'W R', while the right gable with a kneeler adjoins the neighbouring building. There are end stacks, with the one on the right raised alongside the neighbouring building. The interior has been largely altered in the 19th and 20th centuries.