46 and 48 Market Place

Former town house, built in the late C18, partly converted into two houses with shops by the early C19, with number 46 converted to an International Stores around 1904, and number 48 to a bank by 1928, both with later C20 and early C21 alterations for retail use, including the installation of two new shop fronts in 2024.

MATERIALS: of white Suffolk brick with red brick to the south gable and render to the north gable. The roof to number 46 is of red pantiles and that to number 48 is of black-glazed pantiles.

EXTERIOR: of three storeys in five bays, the early-C21 shop front to number 48 spans the three right-hand bays and replicates the shop front used in the early C20 when it was an International Stores. It is framed by triangular-pedimented pilasters and has a canted and recessed doorway to the off-centre left with a half-glazed door, flanked to the left and right by one- and two-light display windows respectively, all above glazed brick stallrisers, with the window divided by colonnettes with small spandrels supporting a thin transom light that replicates the position of a former ventilation grille in the early-C20 shop front. The shopfront to number 46 spans the two left-hand bays and has a half-glazed door flanked to the right by a plate-glass display window placed above a glazed brick stallriser. On the first and second floors, which are separated by a plat band, there are five one-over-one horned sashes, all with painted surrounds, of which those on the first floor are eared. The gabled roof has an internal gable-end stack to the north. The southern gable has minor tumbling. At the rear there is a three-storey wing.