33-43, MARKET PLACE

Row of houses with shops built in the 1780s for Richard Arkwright to accommodate textile workers for his mills. The buildings were converted to retail use and altered and extended in the 19th century. They are constructed of coursed rubble with tiled roofs.

Nos 37-41 date from the 1780s and represent Arkwright's Phase I type of housing. They were originally single units in plan with rear services, three storeys high, with side stairs positioned against end and party walls behind and to one side of the front entrance. The front elevations consist of two bays, with the entrance bay having no windows above it, while the other bay has two-light stone mullioned windows on each floor. The doorways feature substantial rectangular lintels and crude capitals and bases, all tooled. A moulded stone eaves cornice and ridge stacks complete the design.

No 37 (Lloyd's Bank) retains its fenestration on the upper floors with windows featuring horned sashes. The doorway has a circa 1900 stone surround with double panelled doors and a large window to the right with glazing bars (late 20th century). The building was extended to the left around 1900 with a slightly recessed two-storey addition featuring one window bay with horned sashes to both the front and left return.

No 39 (formerly two houses) preserves its fenestration above with horned sash windows. To the left is a small 19th-century shop window and half-glazed and panelled door in the original surround. To the right, the companion window was replaced with an early 19th-century double bowed shop window with glazing bars flanking a glazed and panelled door with a rectangular overlight containing decorative glazing bars.

No 41 retains its upper fenestration with plate-glass casements and has 20th-century windows inserted in the blank bay above the original doorway (which features 2–4 double glazed doors). A 19th-century shop front with pilasters has been inserted below.

No 43, slightly later in date (marked by a vertical masonry joint), features a 19th-century shop window with pilasters and panelled reveals to a wide doorway to the left, with late 20th-century glazing bars. Upper windows are in original surrounds with 20th-century two-light casements. One original stone ridge stack remains; others have been replaced in red and black brick. The building extends to the rear forming a double-depth plan, with the front end wall rendered and the rear end wall featuring windows under cambered arches, a 19th-century doorway surround, and a planked door. A stone end stack serves the rear range.

No 35 occupies a lean-to outshut behind no 37 and contains three original windows, one of which is a two-light window with a stone mullion.

No 33 (now part of and to the rear of no 39) comprises a wing that returns to form a storage or workshop range running parallel to the street. It has a planked door with an overlight and some 19th-century windows.

All buildings were added to the list before 1841, when they appear on the Tithe Map.