25 and 25a Market Place

This is a former house, dating from the early 17th century, that was later converted to include a shop in the mid-19th century. In the second half of the 20th century, it was remodelled into two shops with living accommodation above.

The building is constructed of rendered and whitewashed flint and brick, with a pantile roof and a brick stack. It has an L-shaped layout.

The front of the building is two storeys and two bays wide. A half-glazed door with three panels in the lower two-thirds and three Art Nouveau-style frosted glass lights above sits centrally on the ground floor. This is flanked by a late-20th century shop front on the right and an early-21st century shop front on the left, both featuring plate-glass display windows and glazed doors. The first floor has two 19th-century sash windows with horns. The gabled roof includes a 20th-century internal gable-end stack on the east side. A two-storey cross wing projects at the rear, and includes a doorway with label stops on its east side, now partially obscured by a mid-20th century addition. Above this doorway is an early 19th-century four-light casement window on the first floor, and it incorporates a reused datestone inscribed with the date 1655.

The west room on the ground floor features chamfered bridging beams with tongue stops and run-out stops, while the east room has two wave-moulded bridging beams with run-out stops. The roof of the rear cross wing is supported by upper crucks.