14 Market Place

House built in the late C18 and converted into a shop in the mid-C19.

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

PLAN: the building is on a corner site and has a rectangular plan with a long narrow north-west wing.

EXTERIOR: the two-storey building is under a hipped roof with exposed rafter feet at the eaves. Both the south and east slopes have flat-roofed, two-light dormer windows of C20 date, wholly within the roof space. A mid-C19 plate-glass shop front wraps around the corner, formerly with an entrance in the canted corner consisting of a pair of columns with foliated capitals supporting a nodding arch with hollow mouldings and fleuron decoration. The door has since been replaced with a window. A cast iron corner bracket for a shop sign hangs above the former entrance. The first floor on both the south and east front is lit by a two-over-two pane horned sash window, the east window retaining an external blind box. Below the window on the south front is a doorway with glazed upper panels, inserted in the C20. It is positioned to the left of the shop front and is used as the main shop entry.