10 Market Place

Commercial shop, built in the 17th or early 18th century, remodelled in the early to mid-19th century, and shop front replaced around 1870.

The building is constructed of clay lump with timber-framing to the north end of the front and north elevations. The roof is covered in clay pantile with red brick chimneystacks. The shop front is timber-framed with cast-iron columns, and the rear wall to the courtyard is built of red brick laid in Flemish bond. The building is roughly rectangular in plan, facing west to Market Place.

The front elevation to Market Place is three storeys in height. The north-west and south-west corners have giant engaged pilasters spanning all three floors. The first and second floors each contain two widely-spaced windows within moulded architraves, fitted with single-pane timber-framed sash windows. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, with a substantial red brick chimneystack on the party wall with numbers 6 and 8 Exchange Street, a slender chimneystack on the north slope, and a red brick chimneystack on the rear east gable.

The shop front of around 1870 comprises a plain cornice with modern signage applied to the fascia in the early 21st century, and an engaged pilaster to each end bearing a round-arched cornice and large console bracket. A segmental-arched arcade of slender cast-iron columns stands over a dark brick plinth, which has been replaced in the late 20th or early 21st century. The central canted entrance contains a double-leaf glazed door, replaced in the late 20th or early 21st century, under a plain segmental-arched overlight. The arcaded shop front continues around and projects from the north return, which has a single window to each of the first and second floors. The south return has two bays of windows to each of the first and second floors; the ground floor has a display window in an early to mid-19th century surround of plain shallow cornice and engaged pilasters, and to its right an early 21st century door and surround.

The shop interior is open in plan and retains a number of plain classical pilasters and numerous slender cast-iron columns at regular intervals. On the ground floor, any other surviving historic features are either covered with carpet or hidden behind commercial wall racking. A straight stair, introduced around 2009, rises to the first floor from the rear south-east corner. The first floor retains some exposed timber joists and short sections of two timber-framed wall divisions running west-east survive in situ. A plain stair, most likely dating from the late 19th century when the shop front was replaced, rises to the second floor with a plain wooden handrail and stick balusters. The 19th century room divisions, timber-battened wall panelling, and plain timber doors of the second floor survive intact.

The basement retains three pointed-arch recesses in its walls, which may indicate a 17th century date or possibly earlier. Around the basement is a low wall approximately 0.8 metres in height, most likely used as a storage shelf. The basement stair was replaced in the late 20th or early 21st century. A blocked door opening between the basement of 1 Green Dragon Lane shows the two cellars were formerly interconnected.

The building is attached to 1 Green Dragon Lane to the north, rebuilt around 1930 and not listed, and to 6 and 8 Exchange Street to the south-east, both built in the early 19th century and listed at Grade II.