26, 28 and 30 Market Place

A terrace of three town houses, built in the late C18, possibly incorporating earlier fabric at the rear, partly converted to offices in the C19 and flats in the late C20. MATERIALS: of red brick in Flemish bond with a roof of mixed red and black-glazed pantiles. EXTERIOR: the external form of the three former houses reads as a single composition and is of three storeys in seven bays with platbands to the first and second floors and a dentil eaves cornice. The principal elevation is arranged 2:3:2, the centre three bays (number 28) advanced with two symmetrically placed entrances with four-panelled doors within stuccoed doorcases with minor incised decoration and plain entablatures with dentils and a hood. The ground and first floors have six-over-six unhorned sashes to each bay, the exception being the two ground-floor left-hand bays (number 30) which have C20 one-over-one horned sashes. The second floor has seven three-over three unhorned sashes. All the windows have painted timber sills and gauged skewback arches with painted keystones. INTERIOR: the ground-floor front room to number 30 has moulded cornices and lugged window surrounds while the ground-floor room to number 26 has a modillion cornice. Number 28 has an open-string staircase has two turned balusters per tread, scrolled tread ends, baluster newels and ramped handrail.