20, Market Hill

No. 20 Market Hill is a house dating from the early 19th century, and possibly earlier. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a rendered brick front. The front range features a gabled plain tile roof with large end stacks, while the parallel rear range has a hipped plain tile roof, which includes a further hip on the ridge to a range at right angles, topped with a white weatherboarded tower beneath a glazed belvedere.

The exterior of the front range consists of two storeys with an attic and cellar, arranged in a three-window range. A large central hipped dormer with a three-light small-paned casement sits behind a plain parapet. On the first floor, there are two 16-pane sash windows flanking a narrower similar window. The ground floor features a central doorcase with thin Tuscan pilasters, tall attic panels, and a segmental, bowed, dentilled, and reeded cornice. The semicircular fanlight has radiating bars, and the deeply recessed door has four raised-and-fielded panels over two flush panels, accessed by four steps. Flanking the door are slightly bowed 16-pane windows with curved glass and a dentilled cornice. There is a 20th-century flat-roofed car port on the north-west flank.

The rear range is three storeys high and rendered, with a variety of windows including a margin-glazed sash with coloured glass and a 16-pane sash on the ground floor. There is a single-storey rendered brick extension with a lean-to slate roof, featuring a reeded surround to the door in the flank and a 20th-century small-paned casement. A further 19th-century extension beyond also has a lean-to slate roof and rendered timber-frame. The belvedere on the roof has small-paned windows on all sides and a flat roof.

Inside, there is a central entrance hall with a segmental arch on pilasters, and an open-well staircase with a continuous curved soffit, stick balusters, and column newels. The north-west room of the front range has cupboards with raised-and-fielded doors on either side of the rear window. The windows have internal folding shutters on the flanks, and the belvedere features a fitted bench with shaped ends.