30 And 32, Market Hill

30 and 32 Market Hill is a pair of houses that have been combined into a single dwelling. They date from the early 17th century to the early 19th century, with earlier origins. The buildings are timber-framed and rendered, topped with plain tile roofs.

The exterior features two storeys and a three-window range, along with a two-storey-with-attic range at the rear. No. 30 has a plain tile roof that is hipped at the southeast end. The first floor is made of ashlar and has two 16-pane sash windows with moulded surrounds, jettied over a ground floor of painted brick that includes two similar sash windows and a 20th-century 12-pane sash.

No. 32 has a front made of rendered brick, featuring a 20th-century tripartite sash window on the first floor. The ground floor includes a canted bay window with a flat roof and small panes, leading to a recessed door with a semicircular-arched opening that has a keystone. Above the door is a semicircular fanlight with two radiating glazing bars, and the door itself has six moulded panels. At the rear of No. 32, there is a two-storey timber-framed building with a plain tiled gambrel roof that runs parallel to the front and has a stack and projection on the southeast flank.

Inside No. 32, the front room features early 19th-century panelling below the dado. There is a straight-flight staircase with a handrail on panelled pilasters, decorated with a lily motif at the head and foot. An early 19th-century corner cupboard has doors, serpentine shelves, and an elliptical-arched head. There are also a panelled and framed 17th-century door and a smaller 17th-century door made of panelling.

The southwest part of No. 30 includes a two-bay parlour cross-wing with a side-purlin roof and straight wind bracing, which may represent an earlier cross-wing, possibly from the 15th century, that was rebuilt in the late 16th century. This rebuilding incorporated square-section floor joists and a moulded-mullion window on the first floor of the southwest flank. The hall part of this structure features similar joists and a large chamfered spine beam, with a side-purlin roof of A-frame type and heavy-section collars. The tie beam on the upper floor is cambered and hollow-chamfered towards the cross-wing, likely reused from an earlier hall.