11 and 12 Market Place

11 and 12 Market Place is a house built in the mid-19th century, which may have originally included a shop. It has been used as retail premises since at least the 1860s and is now divided into three retail units.

The building is constructed from painted gault brick and has a roof covered with pantiles. It is situated on the east side of The Shambles and has an approximately square plan, featuring a double-pile range with a taller wing at right angles to the north. There are modern flat-roofed extensions at the rear.

The exterior of 11 and 12 Market Place is divided into three retail units and has an irregular frontage facing east onto the Market Place. It consists of a two-storey, three-window range beneath a double-pile pitched roof, with a taller two-storey single bay to the right under a hipped roof that has a dentilled eaves cornice. This bay features a tall gabled dormer window on the east side and another on the north return, both with brick kneelers, as well as two-over-two pane sash windows set under segmental brick arches. The three shop fronts have a projecting cornice across the façade and include two early 20th-century canted bay windows in the outer bays; the left one has unglazed plate glass (which is not original), while the right one is larger and wraps around the corner onto the north return, retaining its original glazing bars that divide the window into large panes. The middle shop front has had its canted bay, shown on the OS map of 1905, replaced with a flat plate glass frontage. To the left of the left bay window and between each shop front, there are replaced doors flanked by pilasters with plain capitals. Above the two left shop fronts, there are three recessed sash windows directly beneath the eaves, featuring simple sills and lintels. The two windows on the left have six-over-nine panes, while the right window has two-over-two panes. The single right-hand bay is lit by a similar two-over-two pane sash window.

Inside, the ground floor has been opened up into continuous retail areas.