78, MARDOL

No. 78 Mardol is a shop that likely started as a dwelling, dating from the late 16th century with early 19th-century additions. The building is timber-framed and features a plain tiled roof. It has two storeys and a four-window range. The early 20th-century shop front has been incorporated into a later design, which includes a heavy late 20th-century fascia that obscures much of the first floor. The upper storey displays close studding with a middle rail and may have once jutted out. The windows are two-light casements with fixed overlights. The return elevation facing Mardol Head has a Dutch gabled brick false front, featuring two casement windows with flat-arched heads. This section adjoins a once separate building, now incorporated, which is early 19th-century and made of painted brick. This building has four storeys and a three-window range, with an early 20th-century shop front that has a high fascia, cutting across the renewed first-floor windows. The second- and third-floor windows are sashes without glazing bars, all having flat-arched gauged brick heads. Inside, there is a plaster panelled ceiling with fleur-de-lys decoration, likely from the early 20th century.