3-7, Wool Market

Nos 3 to 7 Wool Market is a late 18th-century building that has been altered in the 20th century. It consists of two houses that have been combined into one shop on the ground floor with offices above. The structure is made of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring brick and stone dressings, and has slate roofs.

Nos 3 and 5, located to the left, are three storeys high and have five bays. Originally, they had a central entry plan with a 2:1:2 arrangement. The ground floor features a 20th-century shop front that is not of special interest. The first floor has a sill band and five tall plate-glass sash windows, with the central window set in a moulded stone architrave, while the others are below painted gauged brick arches. Above, there are five smaller plate-glass sash windows, with the central one also in an architrave, all having projecting stone sills. A moulded stone cornice and a brick end stack are present to the right.

No 7, which is slightly recessed to the right, has a plain stone first-floor sill band and three tall 20th-century casement windows in the original openings, complete with flat stone arches featuring incised voussoirs. The second floor has half-size plate-glass sashes in similar openings. To the far right, there is a moulded hopper head for the original bracketed downpipe. The moulded stone cornice is topped with later brickwork, and there is a brick end stack to the right.

The rear elevation of No 7 contains original blocked first-floor windows and a semi-circular-headed staircase window, along with a six-pane sash window to the staircase and another six-pane sash to the second floor, all with brick arches. The rear elevation of Nos 3 and 5 features an early 19th-century extension on the right-hand two bays, which has two original plate-glass sashes on the first floor and similar ones above, all beneath flat brick arches. The three left-hand bays retain original second-floor windows in similar openings. The later extension has a hipped roof.