22-23 Market Place and 1-8 Plowright Place

This building, originally an ironworks and foundry with showrooms and stores, was built in 1870 by the local builder Matthias Goggs. It was later converted into a shopping arcade in 1982, and first-floor flats were added around 2014.

The front facade is constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with yellow brick dressings, and is topped by a slate roof to the front and pantiles to the rear. The rear range is of uncoursed flint, incorporating pieces of red brick, with red brick dressings, and has a pantile roof over the western half. The western-most part of the rear range (covering 9-10 Plowright Place) is not included in the listing.

The main range faces east onto the Market Place and features a central carriageway that leads to a long, south-facing rear range. The main frontage is two storeys high and has a pitched roof with a dentil-moulded eaves cornice and a parapet on the left, supported by a brick kneeler. There are five window bays, creating a near-symmetrical facade. The central carriageway is marked by pilasters rising to a shaped gable, which contains a two-light arched casement window at first-floor level, with a decorative fanlight featuring batwing glazing bars. Late 20th-century metal gates are present. Flanking the carriageway are pairs of tall three-light windows set within raised surrounds and keystones, with one-over-one pane sash windows above, in similar surrounds. A stone platband runs across these bays between the windows. The outer bays have shallow recesses with a moulded stone cornice and a stone platband below the first-floor sill. On the left is a semicircular arched pedestrian doorway with a brick keystone, leading to the rear. The right-hand bay contains a 20th-century shop window display and door. The carriageway retains two cast-iron columns with classical-style capitals, now lined with late 20th-century shop windows. The south side of the rear courtyard features a long two-storey flint range with brick quoins and a pitched roof with a simple brick eaves cornice. This range originally housed workshops and retains four former carriage entrances, now infilled with doors and shop windows, set beneath wide brick arches composed of three rows of headers. The ground floor has eleven wooden windows, mostly with fixed lights within red brick arches, while the first floor has twelve wooden casements, mostly in late 20th-century brick surrounds. The doors and fenestration of this rear range were added during the 1982 conversion.

The interior retains no historic features or fixtures related to its original use, having been converted into shop units and flats in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.