1, Market Street

This is a shop and business premises with a complex history, dating back to the 15th century, with later additions and alterations through the 16th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building has an “F” shaped layout, extending along Market Street with rear wings. It is timber-framed and plastered, with brick sections and peg tile roofs. The west front has five window bays, predominantly from the 19th century, with four similar windows above double shop fronts. The windows have ornate architraves with corner roundels, a central shell motif, and 'bow and wheat ear' decorations. The sashes contain 3x4 panes of glass. The shop fronts are modern, featuring fluted pilasters and shallow bow windows; the one to the south is larger, with glazing bars and 10x3 panes. A common doorway has double doors with molded panels. To the south, a brick-fronted carriageway from the early 19th century has stuccoed brickwork, pilasters, and a round-headed window with glazing bars and radial panes. The carriageway doors are double, with six flush panels each.

The rear east elevation features a two-storey and attic timber and plaster wing, with 20th-century windows. The east gable includes a ground-floor glazed bay window, a central French window, lower boarding, a 2-light casement window with 4x3 panes on the first floor, and a simple casement in the attic. The south side has a 3-light casement window on the ground floor and a 2-light casement with 4x2 panes on the first floor. The carriageway arch is plain. The north end is dominated by a long jettied wing, originally two 16th-century bays, with two further 20th-century bays added. The older timber framing retains principal joists and brackets, with remnants of old panelled basket pargetting on the plastered surfaces. The ground floor has a 3-light casement, and the first floor an 18th-century sliding sash window with a molded architrave and 6x2 panes. A modern continuation mimics the jetty with slender brackets, and includes two facade gables, three plain doors, and casement windows. Between the wings, there is a narrow gap with a 20th-century door and a matching casement window on both ground and first floors.

Inside, the entry passageway between the shop fronts appears original, dating back to the 15th century, with a plank and muntin screen wall on the south side and a cyma-molded bridging joist over the passage. Remnants of 15th-century timber framing are visible in the street range, and a heavy, jowled post at the northeast corner demonstrates deep chamfer detailing. The north rear, jettied range is of secondary construction, displaying 16th-century methods of building akin to those found at Nos 2 and 4 Church Path.