52 Market Place, 10 High Street

Commercial premises with accommodation above, built in around 1800 and altered in the later C20 and C21.

MATERIALS: brick and painted stucco.

PLAN: four storeys on a rectangular plan with frontages onto Market Place to the north and High Street to the east.

EXTERIOR: the street-facing east and north elevations of 52 Market Place and 10 High Street are designed in a consistent neoclassical style. The north elevation onto Market Place is three bays wide, while the east elevation onto High Street is four bays wide. The ground floor is painted dark green. Its window bays are separated by simple pilasters, while the southernmost bay of the east façade contains a blind doorway set into a channel rusticated portal. The ground floor windows are probably C20 replacements, featuring fixed two-pane glazing. The entrance to the restaurant is located on the third bay of the north elevation, with a modern timber door with frosted overlight. At first- and second-floor level, the bays of the building’s north and east elevations are separated by giant order Ionic pilasters, rising to a stucco entablature, the cornice of which forms the cill of the third-floor windows. Fenestration on the first and second floors is six-over-six timber sash windows, whereas the windows on the third floor are shorter, six-pane sash windows. Fluted Doric colonettes have been fitted into the window jambs at first-floor level. The windows at second-floor level on the east elevation are enclosed by architraves. The third-floor attic has geometric incised dividing piers and an incised frieze. The ground floor bays are similarly divided by panelled piers. The main entrance to the building is located within a rusticated archway that faces onto High Street with a patterned semi-circular fanlight.

INTERIOR: the ground floor does not appear to contain any original architectural fabric. It connects to the ground floor of 1-5 King Street to form one continuous restaurant space.