17 Corn Market

17 Corn Market is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the mid-18th century, with early and late 19th-century additions and 20th-century alterations. The building is made of rendered brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof. It stands two storeys tall and has five bays, with a central entrance and a through-passage located in the left-hand bay.

The building features a plinth and the left-hand passage entrance to Jackson Court is marked by a rusticated semicircular headed archway with radiating voussoirs, set within an eared architrave beneath a pulvinated frieze and a moulded cornice. To the right, there is a 20th-century shop front. A wide band runs along the first floor, which has five sash windows with glazing bars on a plain sill band, interrupted by projecting brackets under the outer and central windows. The outer windows are topped with floating cornices, while the central window is framed in an architrave beneath a cornice supported by fluted consoles. The building has a moulded and bracketed stone cornice that leads to a hipped roof, with brick stacks on the rear and side walls.

At the rear, there is a two-storey early 19th-century bow with small-pane windows that belong to the back of the original house, which also features a substantial double cogged and stepped brick cornice and a mid-19th-century addition to the left. This addition has been altered at ground level but retains original sashes, some of which are missing glazing bars, on the first and second floors, all beneath original flat brick arches and with stone sills.

Inside, the rear right area contains a good mid-18th-century staircase with a curving open-well plan, featuring paterae on the open string. This staircase is illuminated by a Venetian window in the surviving wall, which has Ionic inner columns and outer pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, and a dentil cornice above the outer lights. The ceiling of the first-floor front room to the left is decorated with acanthus-leaf motifs on the cornice and frieze, while the first-floor front room to the right has a coved ceiling.