Parkins Store Woburn Books

Parkins Store and Woburn Books is a pair of dwellings that share a single frontage, located on the west side of Woburn Market Place. The building dates from the later 18th century, with the upper storey appearing to be a mid-19th century addition. The lower floors are constructed of deep red brick, featuring some vitrified bricks and lighter red brick dressings, while the top storey is made of lighter mottled brick. The building has a shallow pitched slate roof and stands three storeys tall, with six windows on the first and second floors arranged in a 3:3 pattern.

The ground floor has been converted into shops, with a single shop-front on the left-hand side and a double shop-front in a roughly central position, both dating from the later 19th century. The left shop features a three-light window and a glazed door, with panelled pilasters and a moulded cornice supported by a scroll bracket. The double shop-front has glazed double doors flanked by canted bays, along with panelled pilasters and a moulded cornice. To the right of this shop-front is a doorway that shares the same cornice and has similar pilasters, with a panelled door that has an upper part glazed with marginal lights and is topped by a rectangular fanlight. To the right of this doorway is a bow window with glazing bars and a moulded cornice.

On the first floor, the windows are tall two-light casements topped with ornamental top-lights that have pointed-arched glazing bars, although the windows for number 18 are 20th-century replacements. These windows are set under gauged brick flat arches. Between the two groups of three windows is a narrower blind window with a similar head. The second floor features sash windows with glazing bars under cambered heads.