Cranglegate, 59 Market Place

Cranglegate, located at 59 Market Place, is a townhouse built around 1740, likely on the site of a 17th-century coaching inn. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, topped with a roof of black-glazed pantiles and featuring brick stacks.

The main façade facing Market Place is symmetrical, consisting of two storeys plus an attic and arranged in nine bays, with the left-hand bay being blind. Centrally located on the ground floor is a raised and fielded six-panelled door, which is topped by a six-vaned bat-wing fanlight. This door is set within a pilastered doorcase that has raised and fielded panelled reveals and block entablatures, supporting an open segmental pediment. The remaining façade features six-over-six unhorned sash windows on both floors, all set under gauged flat-segmental arches, except for the seventh and eighth ground-floor bays, which have gauged flat arches. A plat band runs below the first-floor windows, and above them is a cogged eaves cornice. The gabled roof includes four flat-topped dormers, each with three-over-three sashes; the left three have horns, while the right one does not. An internal gable-end stack is located at the west end, while the east gable end is colour-washed and rendered to imitate ashlar, featuring an unhorned three-over-three sash in the attic. Attached to the gabled east return is a single-storey bay with a half-glazed door, which is recessed within a pilastered surround and has a shallow fascia. The rear elevation has two stacks on the wall plane and a two-storey extension.

Inside, the building is noted to retain a turned-baluster staircase.