18 AND 20, MARKET PLACE (See details for further address information)

This is a mid-18th century house, extended in the 19th century and altered in the 20th, now divided into three separate residences. The building is constructed of blue and red brick in both header and Flemish bonds, with a roof of handmade and machine-made red clay tiles.

The main range faces southwest onto the Market Place and features an external stack on the left end and an internal axial stack on the right. There’s an irregular, early 19th-century extension to the front right, aligned with the street, and a single-storey lean-to extension to its rear, roofed with corrugated iron. Another single-storey extension to the left now incorporates the original external stack. Two parallel wings extend to the rear, each with its own external stack and a single-storey lean-to extension covered in slate. The main range is divided into three sections: number 18 on the right, number 20 on the left, and the rear left wing forms number 37 on Bakers Lane.

The main range is two storeys with attics. Originally, the front door was centrally located with a blank recess above it, and sashes on each floor to the left and two to the right. Most first-floor sashes have been replaced with early 19th-century sashes, set into original openings and extended downwards with a three-course brick surround and a gauged brick arch. Number 20 has a 20th-century casement in one original opening and a smaller casement where the original door stood; some disturbed brickwork is visible above and to the right of this. Number 18 has a 20th-century casement and a 19th/20th-century half-glazed door. Number 20 features a cement-rendered dado and a projecting band of 21 courses of red bricks at first-floor level. A moulded eaves cornice and wrought-iron gutter brackets are also present. A central, three-light casement is situated in a hipped dormer.

The right-hand front extension is of red brick in Flemish bond on the ground floor, with plaster above and a hipped roof of machine-made red clay tiles. It has an early 19th-century sash window of 6+6 lights on the front and another on the right return. The left extension has a dentilled eaves cornice at front and back, and a plastered gable.

Number 37, Bakers Lane, has a timber-framed and plastered facade with a weatherboarded dado. It has a mix of altered 19th-century and 20th-century casement windows and a boarded door. The roof is of machine-made red clay tiles, with a weatherboarded extension to the left.