Cranglegate, 59 Market Place

Townhouse, built around 1740, probably on the site of a C17 coaching inn.

MATERIALS: of red brick in Flemish bond with a roof of black-glazed pantiles and brick stacks.

EXTERIOR: the symmetrical principal elevation to Market Place is of two storeys plus attic in nine bays, with a blind left-hand bay. At the centre of the ground floor, there is a raised and fielded six-panelled door over which is a six-vaned bat-wing fanlight. It is recessed within a pilastered doorcase with raised and fielded panelled reveals and block entablatures supporting an open segmental pediment. The rest of the façade has six-over-six unhorned sashes across both floors, all under gauged flat-segmental arches except the seventh and eighth ground-floor bays which have gauged flat arches. Below the first-floor windows there is a plat band and above is a cogged eaves cornice. The gabled roof has four flat-topped dormers with three-over-three sashes, the left-hand three with horns and the right-hand one without horns. At the west end is an internal gable-end stack. The east gable end is colour-washed and rendered and scored to imitate ashlar, with an unhorned three-over-three sash to the attic. Attached to the gabled east return is a single-storey bay with a half-glazed door recessed within a pilastered surround with a shallow fascia. The rear elevation has two stacks on the wall plane and a two-storey extension.

INTERIOR: recorded to retain a turned-baluster staircase.