11 and 12 Market Place

House built in the mid-C19, possibly incorporating a shop, used as retail premises since at least the 1860s, since divided into three retail units.

MATERIALS: gault brick, painted, with a roof covering of pantiles.

PLAN: the building is located on the east side of The Shambles. It has an approximately square plan consisting of a double-pile range with a taller wing at right angles to the north. There are modern flat-roofed extensions to the rear.

EXTERIOR: 11 and 12 Market Place is divided into three retail units. It has an irregular frontage, facing east onto the Market Place, consisting of a two-storey, three-window range under a double-pile pitched roof; and, to the right, a taller two-storey single bay under a hipped roof with a dentilled eaves cornice. This bay has a tall gabled dormer window on the east frontage and another on the north return, with brick kneelers, and two-over-two pane sash windows under segmental brick arches. The three shop fronts have a projecting cornice running across the façade and two early C20 canted bay windows in the outer bays; the left one has unglazed plate glass (not original), whilst the right is larger and wraps around the corner onto the north return. It retains the original glazing bars dividing the window into large panes. The middle shop front has had its canted bay (shown on the OS map of 1905) removed and replaced with a flat plate glass frontage. To the left of the left bay window, and in between each shop front, are doors (replaced) flanked by pilasters with plain capitals. Above the two left shopfronts are three recessed sash windows, directly underneath the eaves, with simple sills and lintels. The two windows to the left have six-over-nine panes, and that to the right has two-over-two panes. The single righthand bay is lit by a similar two-over two pane sash.

INTERIOR: the ground floor has been opened up into continuous retail areas.