21 and 23 Market Place

Former inn, now public house, probably built in the mid-C17 on the site of an earlier coaching inn, with later alterations and additions, including a subdivision in the C19 to create a separate house with shop.

MATERIALS: of flint and brick, the ground floor to number 21 rendered, with a pantile roof and brick stacks.

EXTERIOR: the building is of two storeys with a dormer attic in four bays. The three left-hand bays correspond to the King’s Arms (number 21) and have two mid-C20 six-panelled doors in plain surrounds, that to the right with a C19 hood on curved brackets and that to the left with a late-C20 hood. The windows alternate with three-light cross casements, all of mid-C20 date, while the fourth bay to number 23 at the right-hand end has a late-C20 shopfront with a recessed central doorway flanked by plate glass display windows. On the first floor, number 21 has three four-light casements while number 23 has a four-light casement with a transom, all with timber lintels. The gabled roof has four flat-topped dormers, all with two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. There are internal gable-end chimney stacks and a central ridge chimney stack, all rebuilt in C20. The west gable end is of flint with some minor tumbling.