2, Market Street

No. 2 Market Street is a building that originally housed two shops with flats, but is now a single premises. It dates from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The structure is timber-framed with a brick exterior. The main section to the west features a roof covered with black glazed pantiles, while the rest has plain tiles. The building is two storeys tall with a dormer attic. Both sections have late 19th-century plate glass shop fronts and doors beneath prominent fascia boards supported by box brackets.

On the first floor, there are two late 18th-century three-light casement windows in each section, with the larger ones located in the west part. The roof has gables of different pitches, with the west part featuring two gabled dormers with casements, and the east part having one tall gable dormer with a bargeboard. A central stack is shared by both sections. The west gable is made of brick and sits on kneelers, displaying four blind windows with segmental heads. There are later 18th-century painted brick extensions that run south along Damgate.

Inside, the ground-floor front area includes a wave-moulded bridging beam, likely reused, along with jowled principal studs and arched wall braces in the southeast corner. There is a sunk-quadrant moulded tie beam on the first floor. Only the attic flight remains of the winder to the south of the stack. The west roof features clasped purlins and collars, and is boarded at this level, while the east roof was replaced in 1980.