6 Market Place and outbuildings (formerly the Granby Inn)

6 Market Place and outbuildings (formerly the Granby Inn)

This inn was constructed in the early 17th century and extended during the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is now used partly as a wine bar and restaurant, and partly as a nursery.

The principal building is constructed of brick, smooth rendered on its south elevation and painted on its east elevation, with a slate roof covering. The outbuildings to the west are of squared and coursed limestone and red brick under a clay pantile roof. The outbuildings to the north are of red brick under a clay pantile roof.

The main building has an infilled T-shaped plan and forms a U-shaped courtyard with two rectangular ranges projecting to the west.

The three easternmost ground-floor bays were remodelled in the mid-20th century. This comprises a wide central doorway in the second bay from the east, containing a pair of five-panelled doors with a rectangular fanlight and simple canopy above, flanked by a matching pair of tripartite windows with fluted mullions containing timber multi-pane casements. A rendered sill and string course run across the remodelled bays and returns onto the east elevation. To the west of the remodelled entrance are two stone cross-windows with fixed lights and an additional sash window. A painted stone string course runs across the south and east elevations between the ground and first floors. Just beneath this, at the eastern end of the south elevation, there is an iron and mild steel wall tie plate, apparently of the 20th century.

On the first floor are five timber sash windows set flush with the wall. Four have six-over-six glazing, while the central window has eight-over-eight glazing. Immediately above the window heads is a painted cornice. There are three evenly-spaced dormers on the southern roof pitch, containing timber casement windows.

The design of the remodelled entrance continues round onto the east elevation, which is smooth-rendered on the ground floor with a timber casement window and an additional blind window, both with rendered sills, beneath two painted string courses. Between the string courses are a pair of iron and mild steel wall tieplates, apparently of the 20th century. On the first floor are two large blind windows under gauged brickwork heads. North of the original building, the east elevation of the two-storey infill extension contains a 20th-century door and window on the ground floor and a uPVC window on the first floor.

Adjoining the 17th-century building to the west are three one- to two-storey outbuildings under gabled roofs. The easternmost range is of squared and coursed limestone with uneven red brick infill around the window and door openings. The element immediately adjoining the inn is taller and has a partially visible red brick western gable. Both outbuildings contain a series of flat and segmental-arched openings on the ground and first floors, all containing late-20th or 21st-century windows and doors.

To the north of the inn is an additional one-to-two-storey range of outbuildings constructed of red brick under a pitched roof. On the ground floor of the south elevation of the outbuildings are a series of flat and segmental-arched openings of different sizes, all containing 21st-century doors and windows. There are a series of small flat-headed openings on the first floor, tucked into the eaves of the pitched roof. On the west elevation, there is a timber casement window on the first floor and an iron tie on the ground floor.