32, 34 AND 36, OLD MARKET STREET

32, 34, and 36 Old Market Street is a building that was originally one house but has been converted into three dwellings. It has a core dating back to the 15th century, with alterations from the 16th century and significant rebuilding in the mid-17th century. The structure features a three-cell main range with a slightly lower addition to the right. It is timber framed and rendered, with the ground floor facade faced in red brick. The main range has a roof covered with concrete pantiles at the front, while the rear slope and the right-hand addition are roofed with 20th-century patent clay tiles. The building has two storeys and an attic, with mid-20th-century small-paned casement windows. There are four doors, with No. 36 retaining an old plank door and the others being from the 20th century. A gabled dormer is present, along with an internal stack featuring a narrow brick axial shaft and gable stacks with rendered external shafts.

Inside, No. 36 includes the hall and service cells of the original house. The 15th-century work features two rear wall posts with 17th-century upper sections joined together; one of these wall posts is buttress-shafted and supports the open truss. A service partition, possibly from the 15th century, shows evidence of central arched doorways. The hall boasts a fine 16th-century inserted ceiling with ogee-moulded cross-beams and hollow-chamfered joists with run-out stops, along with the remains of a 16th-century moulded wall post. The fireplace has been rebuilt but retains a good 16th-century lintel. The 17th-century ceiling in the service end incorporates some heavy 15th-century joists. Much of the studding in No. 34 is said to be concealed, but there is a mid-17th-century ground floor ceiling with small square joists. The interior of No. 32 has not been examined.