83 and 83a Market Place

House built in the late C18, converted into offices and a flat in the C20.

MATERIALS: red brick laid in Flemish bond with brick dressings and a roof covering of black-glazed pantiles.

PLAN: the building faces west onto Market Place and has a rectangular plan with a rear wing and attached outbuilding (number 83a).

EXTERIOR: the building is of two storeys and an attic under a pitched roof. This is pierced by two late C20 dormers fitted with two-light casements, and a central ridge stack. The three-bay façade has a triple brick platband just below the eaves, and shallow, plain brick pilasters at either end. In the central bay are double-leaf C20 doors with lower wooden panels and upper glazed sections, set within a late C18 timber doorcase of pilasters rising to a plain entablature. This is flanked by late C20 canted display windows with plate glass. The first floor is lit by two recessed six-over-six pane unhorned sashes under gauged skewback arches. The central window is blind. The north return wall was rebuilt in red brick in the late C20.

INTERIOR: this was opened out in the late C20 and converted into offices.