3, Market Street

No. 3 Market Street is a shop building from the early to mid-19th century, with later additions from the 19th and 20th centuries and a refurbishment in the 20th century. The structure is made of stuccoed brick and features a peg tile and slate roof. It has a rectangular plan with a principal range and two additions, standing three storeys tall.

The front elevation is classical in style but asymmetrical, with stucco work showing traces of ashlar lining. The windows and door are adorned with consoles, and the deep peg-tiled roof has eaves supported by shaped brackets. There are two chimney stacks, one offset to the north and the other at the south end, both stuccoed with cornices and shaped dentils.

The ground floor features a central doorway with a flat cornice hood, an overlight, and a 20th-century eight-panelled door. To the north, there is a canted bay window made of stuccoed brickwork with plain 19th-century sash windows. To the south, the original shop and doorway have been fully reworked in the 20th century, now featuring a fully glazed door with three by five panes.

On the first and second floors, there is a three-window range. The windows to the south of the centre are all sashes with glazing bars and three by four panes. The first-floor windows are pedimented in stucco work, with decorative elements within the pediments. To the north of the centre, there is a simple sash window with a moulded stucco architrave, glazing bars, and four by six panes, positioned between the first and second storey heights.

The south end elevation faces Hill Street and features a gable end with a projecting gable and eaves brackets. The ground floor stuccoed wall extends east along the street, showcasing three shop windows and a doorway in a similar building style, with a 20th-century plate glass window and door.

The rear east elevation has a deep 19th-century slated lean-to on the ground and first floors, with similar lean-tos behind the wall facing Hill Street, featuring segment-headed windows and doorways. The rear of the principal range is made of red brick to the north, while the south end is stuccoed with a five by four paned sash window. A single casement ramped dormer window is located at the north end of the peg-tiled roof, and there is a deep gabled glass-roofed dormer window through the lean-to below, with a two-light casement, each having two by two panes. The lean-to has been extended with a flat-roofed 20th-century canopy supported by stanchions. The irregularity of the facade and cracking in the rear brickwork at the north end suggest that the building may have originally consisted of two units, likely timber-framed to the north.