16 and 16a, Market Street

Nos. 16 and 16A on Market Street is a shop and office building dating from the late 16th century, featuring a late 20th-century shop front. The structure is primarily timber-framed with some brickwork and stands three storeys tall with a two-window range. The upper floors are jettied and have two gables. Notable architectural details include moulded bressumers, with the one on the first floor supported by joist ends and the one on the second floor resting on end corbel heads. The late 20th-century timber shop front is set on a brick plinth and has an entryway to the right. On the first floor, there are canted oriel windows with one, three, and one lights, supported by shaped brackets and featuring leaded glazing and iron opening casements. The second floor has three-light windows with wooden ovolo-mullions and leaded glazing. The square framing includes herring-bone bracing on the first floor and decorative bracing on the second floor. The rear of the building has simpler framing and includes a gabled wing with a smaller gabled wing to the left. The interior has an altered ground floor.