8, 8a and 8b Market Place

This building, located at 8, 8a, and 8b Market Place, is a former townhouse constructed around 1770, with the front range added around 1780. It was partially converted into a shop by the early 19th century, reverted to a private dwelling in the late 19th century, used as an office in the 1950s, and then converted back to a shop in the 1960s. In approximately 2017, the ground floor was divided into two retail units, and a maisonette was created on the upper floors.

The building is made of red brick, which is rendered and whitewashed on the main east elevation. It features a pantile roof and brick stacks and has a double-pile plan.

The exterior consists of two storeys with five bays and a dormer attic. The centre of the ground floor has double-glazed doors flanked by plate-glass display windows, all dating from the late 20th century. On the first floor, there are five six-over-six unhorned sash windows, with the three centre windows being slightly shallower than those at the ends. The attic includes three gabled dormers with three-over-three sashes, which were installed around 2017 as replacements for original dormers removed in the mid- to late 20th century. The double-pile roofs have internal gable-end stacks on both the north and south sides. The left-hand return features an early 21st-century plate glass door at the ground floor, a first-floor platband, and two punched octagonal recesses in the gable head, with the right-hand side (east) having a sundial gnomon. The rear range has 20th-century windows.

Inside, the ground floor has been opened up into an open-plan retail area.