St Mary'S Cottage And St Martha'S Cottage

A pair of houses dating from the mid to late 18th century, located on Great Hales Street in Market Drayton. The houses are constructed of painted brick, with the left-hand end wall rendered. They have a plain tile roof, a painted brick plinth, a plat band, and parapeted gable ends. A central brick ridge stack is present, along with integral brick end stacks. A pair of gabled dormers are situated on the right-hand side, each featuring a two-light wooden casement with plain barge boards.

The right-hand house has two windows and features wooden cross windows with tiled sills, the ground-floor windows having segmental heads. There is a roughly central six-panelled door with a segmental head, accessed by four stone steps and a gabled wooden lattic porch. A cast-iron bootscraper sits to the left of the doorway. The left-hand house has two bays; the first floor features 20-pane glazing bar sashes, while the ground floor has a segmental-headed three-light wooden casement to the left. The door on the right-hand side has six raised and fielded panels, and a four-part rectangular overlight with a segmental head. A flight of four dressed red and grey sandstone steps, set at a right angle to the door, incorporates a wrought-iron balustrade consisting of plain railings, twisted standards, and a plain rail with a curtail. The interiors of the houses have not been inspected.