27 and 27A Market Place (Currently listed as 27 Market Place)

Former house, built in the late C17, with C18, C19 and C20 alterations and additions, including conversion to a shop with living accommodation above in the late C19.

MATERIALS: of flint and brick, the ground floor rendered and whitewashed, with a pantile roof and brick stacks.

EXTERIOR: of two storeys in two bays, the ground floor has an off-centre right multi-paned door in a reeded surround with a timber hood on modillion consoles. To its right is a two-over-two horned sash with a shallow timber hood on curved brackets, and to its left is a late-C19 canted shop front with plate glass display windows and diamond-shaped transom lights. On the first floor there is an eight-over-eight unhorned sash to the left-hand bay a smaller six-over-six unhorned sash to the right, both with brick quoins and C19 timber hoods. The parapet was raised in the C19 in Flemish bond brick and is topped with C19 cast-iron cresting. Partly concealed behind the parapet is a gabled roof with a flat-topped dormer with a two-light casement. The two gable end stacks were rebuilt in the C20.

INTERIOR: the east wall has a blocked fireplace, formerly with winder staircase on south side. The ground and first floors have chamfered bridging beams with tongue stops, and the C18 roof has principals, two tiers of taper-tenoned butt purlins and collars.