Market House

The building is a house dating to around the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed and faced with Flemish bond brick, with the right-hand (east) end featuring flared brick headers. A flint outshut is located at the rear. The roof is steeply pitched with Belgian tiles and gabled ends, and includes brick gable end stacks.

The plan initially comprised two rooms with a wide central passage containing a 19th-century staircase. A large room (hall) is on the left, and a smaller parlour to the right (east), both heated by gable end stacks. The right (east) gable end was faced in brick during the 18th century, with outshuts added to the rear in the 18th and 19th centuries. The front was brick-faced in the 18th century, with a shop front inserted into the hall in the late 19th century.

The south front is two-storeys high and asymmetrical, with four windows. It includes four-pane sashes with keyed stone lintels. A similar lintel is above the doorway to the right of centre, with a rectangular overlight and a glazed and panelled door. To the left is a large, late 19th-century double-fronted shop with thin wooden mullions, a central flush panel, and a glazed door and fascia above. At the rear, the main roof slopes down as a catslide over the outshuts. There are 18th-century cambered-head windows at the centre, with an outshut projecting on the right and extended on the left.

The interior reveals exposed timber framing and some 18th and 19th-century joinery. The hall features a large chamfered cross-beam with hollow step stops, similarly stopped broad joists, a large brick fireplace with a chamfered lintel with matching stops, a lozenge mullion four-light rear window, and an 18th-century fielded two-panel door. The parlour has an axial beam enclosed in fielded panelling, broad joists with hollow step stops, a brick fireplace with chamfered brick jambs and a chamfered lintel with run-out notched stops, and cupboards to the left and right – one with a fielded two-panel door and the other with shaped shelves. There is rail covering and traces of red paint on the exposed studs. A Victorian staircase is present. Upstairs, the chambers retain exposed timber framing, jowled posts, tie-beams, wall-plates, studs, and chamfered axial beams with hollow step stops. The right-hand chamber has an 18th-century chimneypiece and flanking cupboards with fielded two-panel doors. The left-hand chamber has a fireplace with chamfered brick jambs and a chamfered cambered lintel with hollow step stops. One central chamber features an exposed brace under a tie-beam. The roof is a five-bay structure with queen-post trusses, clasped purlins over the collars and curved windbraces, with the upper collars birdsmouth-jointed to upper purlins, and intact common rafters, although the ridgepiece is later.