6, Market Hill

This is a house and shop, dating to circa 1840. It is constructed of gault brick and red brick, with a slate roof and red brick stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan, comprising a street-facing range and a rear addition, and extends over three storeys plus a cellar.

The front, west-facing elevation is two windows wide and features a parapet and stuccoed cornice. A stack is located on the north wall. The first and second floor windows have stuccoed, moulded architraves, with a pediment above the first-floor windows. The second-floor windows are early 19th century sashes with 4x4 panes. The first-floor windows retain some original glazing bars, but now have lower double casements and upper lights with inserted air vents and shaped blind box boards. An elegant shallow cast-iron balcony, featuring anthemion decoration supported by four consoles and an anthemion cornice, spans the window at first floor level. The ground floor incorporates a central 19th century shop window (now with plate glass), flanked by doorways with panelled doorcases. The door to the south has six panels, the lower two flush and the upper four recessed. A bootscraper is located near the approach steps. The door to the north is a 20th-century addition with an arched head and upper glazing. A cellar grating is set into the pavement, with a 4x4 pane window below.

The rear, east-facing elevation is a three-storey block in red brick, with mainly segment-headed windows. The windows are spaced further apart at the top than at the bottom. Most windows are early 19th century with thin glazing bars. The second floor has sashes with 4x4 panes, the first floor has sashes with 3x4 panes, and the ground floor has one window with 3x6 panes. A plain doorway has an overlight and a 20th-century two-leaf door with narrow, tall panelled glazed sections. Adjacent is a 20th-century single-light casement window. To the east, a two-storey wing is built as a lean-to against the garden wall, shared with number 4. This wing is timber-framed, rendered, and has a slate roof.

The north elevation has a boarded loading door and a sash window with 3x4 panes on the first floor. The ground floor has a 20th-century central two-panel door with a single-light and a two-light casement window on either side, alongside a large cellar trap door in the angle with the main house. The east end has two ground floor 20th century casement windows. The south elevation is largely obscured, but a 19th century sash window with 4x4 panes is visible on the second floor.