63 Market Place

A house dating to around 1540 and converted into a shop in the C19 with further alterations in 1965.

MATERIALS: rendered and colour-washed brick and flint walls, and a pantile roof covering.

PLAN: the building faces west onto the Market Place. It has an approximately square plan with a small rear north extension, and a single-storey shopfront extension on the frontage, probably added around 1965.

EXTERIOR: the two-storey building is two window bays wide under a shallow-pitched roof. This has a red brick ridge stack set right of centre and a dentil eaves cornice. The original ground floor is obscured by the single-storey shop front, added in 1965, which has two wide bowed windows with wooden glazing bars. The first floor is lit by two two-over-two pane horned sash windows with small scallop-edged hoods, originally for external blinds.

INTERIOR: on the ground floor there are mid-C16 roll-moulded bridging beams with run-out stops. The interior also retains some mid-C18 large-framed panelling, and two-panel doors with HL hinges on the first floor.