53, 55 and 57 Market Place

Former town house, built in the mid-C19, remodelled as a pair of shops with living accommodation above around 1912, with late-C20 and early-C21 shopfronts.

MATERIALS: of colourwashed and rendered brick, scored to imitate ashlar, with brick stacks and a roof of black-glazed pantiles.

EXTERIOR: the Market Place elevation is of three storeys in three bays. On the ground floor, from right to left, there is an early-C21 shopfront to number 53 and a late-C20 shopfront to number 55, both with plate glass windows and half-glazed doors. At the right-hand end there is a half-glazed door of two lights to the upper-storey living accommodation (number 57), set within a pilastered surround with corbels, a plain fascia and a deep fanlight. The first and second floors are lit by two-over-two horned sashes of which those on the first floor are taller and have lintels with painted keystones. Above is an overhanging dentilled eaves cornice. The roof is gabled and has stacks at the east and west ends, the latter rebuilt in the C20.