19 and 21, Market Place

This is a pair of early 19th-century town houses, now used as shops with a dental surgery and storage rooms above. They are located on the west side of Wetherby Market Place. A two-story wing was added to the rear centre, and a later wing was built at an angle to the right, aligning with Scott Lane. The building’s construction is ashlar magnesian limestone with a Welsh slate roof.

The building is five bays wide by three bays deep and incorporates a ground-floor shop front of around 1900 covering the right three bays, featuring a six-panel door and overlight on the left, alongside double shop windows with a central entrance, all beneath a wooden entablature supported by consoles. The remaining bays feature more modern shop fronts, which are not considered to be of particular historic interest. The first floor has projecting stone sills and flat arches to casement windows with glazing bars (in bays 3 to 5), while bays 1 and 2 have aluminium casements. The second floor has shorter windows in a similar style; bays 3 to 5 have renewed unequally-hung 9-pane sashes. The eaves have a wooden cornice with paired gutter brackets. The roof is hipped at the right end with a cement-rendered ridge stack, and a similar stack exists on the gabled left end. The right return side features an altered tripartite window on the first floor, set beneath a segmental arch.

A conveyance and plan from 1814, held by the owner of No. 21, shows the building existed at that time, though it may have been unfinished. A mid-19th century drawing of the Market Place depicts this building with earlier shop fronts in a similar format. Later additions to the rear are not of particular architectural significance.