11 Market Square

This is a mid-to-late 19th-century shop with accommodation above. The building is constructed of brick and rubble stone, with the front elevation rendered and covered by a slate roof topped with a brick chimneystack. It is oriented east-west, aligned with number 9 to the east, and abuts the Town Hall to the south, with a rectangular footprint.

The three-story building includes a basement. The north-facing principal elevation, overlooking Market Square, features a shopfront with a recessed central doorway and plate-glass windows on either side, framed by plain pilasters. The capping consoles to these pilasters are missing, although one, featuring intricate foliate mouldings, has been removed for renovation and will be reinstated. A plain fascia is topped with a moulded cornice. The first floor has two window bays, each with a tripartite sash window set within a moulded architrave with a cornice and pediment. Smaller eight-over-eight sash windows are found on the second floor, also within moulded architraves. The elevation is framed by plain pilasters and has a stepped, moulded parapet with a dentil course and a central label.

The west-facing return elevation is rendered on the ground floor and shows exposed rubble stone above, with segmental arched openings to the first and second floors, each containing a sash window. A brick dentil cornice runs along the eaves. The south elevation is brick, with segmental arched openings on each floor, decreasing in size as they rise. At basement level, a former carriageway is infilled with a multiple-light window and a half-glazed door. Above, a 15-over-15 sash window lights the ground floor, followed by a six-over-six window on the first floor, and a four-over-four window on the second. A dentil cornice defines the eaves.

The ground floor interior is open-plan, supported by chamfered timber and cast-iron columns. A curved, cantilevered timber staircase with stick balusters and a shaped handrail rises from the centre of the rear wall. The open string ends in a wave moulding that joins the plaster underside of the stair. The first floor, likely a former shop floor, is also open plan, with partitions erected around the stair to create a U-shaped room. Timber columns support the floor above, and windows have moulded architraves and panelled linings. The second floor is divided into several rooms. The loft has been adapted into additional living space. The roof structure features king-post trusses with a single tier of deep purlins, some of which have been infilled to form partitions, with raking struts cut away for access. A back staircase leads down to the basement, which contains deep axial beams with rough joists, reinforced with props, a small brick fireplace with a rough timber lintel, and the remnants of the original flooring.