42-42a Market Place

MATERIALS: 42-42a Market Place are built of red brick with stone dressings now painted on the front elevation with a plain tile roof covering to the frontage range. The extensions to the rear have flat roofs.

PLAN: The building is L-shaped on plan, the rear range being a C20 extension.

EXTERIOR: The building is of three storeys with attics, and has a three bay front with a C20 shop front. There are three plain sash windows to the first floor and two smaller openings to the upper floor, all set below wedge lintels. At eaves level there is a shallow dentilled wooden cornice, and there are red-brick gable chimney stacks, that to the right-hand gable truncated. The attic storey had two gabled dormer windows with plain, sash window frames, lead sheet coverings and rendered cheeks.

INTERIOR: The interior has been radically altered, with the original ground-floor plan barely discernable, the interior having been completely remodelled to accommodate restaurant facilities. A remodelled and relocated stair leads to the upper floors. The upper levels are less radically altered, and the upper flights of a C19 turned baluster stair survive, although the balusters are now boarded over. The upper floor rooms retain chimney breasts but the fireplaces have been removed. These rooms are used as storage areas and retain moulded architraves and some moulded cornice work, but all original doors have been removed. The flight of stairs between first and second floors runs across a now blocked semi-circular arch-headed recess, suggesting that the building may have been inter-connected with its attached neighbour prior to an earlier stage of remodelling.