Number 14 High Street And Number 2 Church Street

SJ 6634-6734 13/37 7.5.52

MARKET DRAYTON C.P. HIGH STREET (south-west side)

No. 14

GV II

House, now shop. Early C18, incorporating C17 core and partly altered in the early to mid-C19. Red brick (painted at rear) with some grey sandstone ashlar dressings, probably incorporating a timber framed core. Plain tile roof. L-plan. 2 bays with rear wing of one bay. 2 storeys and attic. Moulded stone plinth with late C20 tiling, dentil brick cornice at first floor level (possibly former eaves cornice), rebuilt parapet with moulded red sandstone coping (and section of moulded grey sandstone coping to left) and left-hand return front with toothed-brick eaves cornice and returned toothed-brick verge. Brick ridge stack just off-centre to left and brick ridge stack to rear range. Pair of dormers that to left gabled with 2-light leaded wooden casement and that to right a lean-to against No. 15 (q.v.) with a single light. 4 bays. First-floor c.1700 glazing bar sashes (with thick bars) with exposed boxes, and painted stone cills and lintels. Ground-floor left-hand window with late C20 top-opening casement and painted stone cill and lintel. Late C19 canted shop- front to right with late C20 tiles to base, 1:2:1 lights with thin circular wooden mullions, and fascia above. Central half-glazed door with mid-C19 panelled surround. Three steps up with late C20 tiling and railings to left. Left-hand return front: 6-pane attic window to right with painted stone cill and lintel. First-and ground-floor glazing bar sashes to left, each with painted stone cill and lintel. Roughly central door with surround consisting of reeded architrave with roundels at corners and moulded cornice to small hood. Inserted late C20 panelled door to left. Rear: first-floor c.1700 wooden cross window with small leaded quarries. Interior: C17 collar and tie-beam roof trusses with queen struts. Early C18 dog-leg staircase at rear of stack with closed string, turned balusters and square newel posts. C17 oak winder stair to attic. Rear wing with pair of chamfered spine beams, one with run out stops. Old oak floorboards. Ground floor at front not inspected. It is possible that the parapet is a late C18 addition (see straight joint to left) and that the building formerly had an eaves cornice with parapeted gables. The left-hand end wall is a rebuilding of the early to the mid-C19 (see straight joist to right). Includes No. 2 Church Street.

Listing NGR: SJ6758734126