38 Market Place

Former townhouse, built in the mid-C18, with a late-C18 extension at the rear. In 1821 the ground floor was remodelled as a chemists and druggists shop, and in around 2006 the upper floors were subdivided to create four flats.

MATERIALS: of painted brick with a roof of black-glazed pantiles.

EXTERIOR: the building is of three storeys in five bays. The ground floor has a late-C20 double plate-glass shopfront with canted returns projecting across the three left-hand bays. To the fourth bay there is a four-panelled door with a pilastered surround while the fifth bay has C20 double doors within a corbelled doorcase giving access to the rear. On the first floor there are five six-over-six unhorned sashes and on the second floor there are five three-over three unhorned sashes. Above is a wide timber eaves to a bell-cast gabled roof, with internal gable-end stacks to the north and south.

INTERIOR: the ground floor was opened out in the early C20 to form a single retail area, although the former front room still retains a mid-C18 moulded cornice and a doorway in the south wall with a pulvinated frieze. A rear passageway leads to a late-C18 staircase extension with stick-baluster stairs with a ramped handrail and an arched staircase window. The first-floor front room has a moulded dentil cornice and six-panelled doors. The second-floor staircase landing has two fielded dado panels.