33-34 Market Place

Shop with accommodation above, constructed in the mid-C19, enlarged in the late C19 and altered in the C20 and C21.

MATERIALS: the street-facing, east elevation is of red brick with stucco dressings and a modern shopfront faced in Bath Stone. The roof covering is slate.

PLAN: 33 and 34 Market Place comprise a principal, three-storey volume with two-storey rear extensions. The C19 front (eastern) block is L-shaped in plan while the later rear extensions are rectangular in plan.

EXTERIOR: the modern ground floor shop frontage of numbers 33 and 34 Market Place contains four arched, full-height window bays, each framed by Doric pilasters that support a simple entablature with the letting agency sign to the south.

The first and second floors of the building have a 2:1:1:1 order of bays with each containing a plate-glass sash window with segmental head. Each window is topped with a stucco swept hood and keystone. The first two bays are framed on either side by paired pilaster strips that run from the first floor to the top of the second floor. The three northernmost bays are separated by a single pilaster strip, with paired pilasters terminating the northernmost side of the east elevation. A band separates the first and second floors and spans the interval between each pilaster strip.

The coupled pilaster strips terminate at the building’s apex in bracket capitals, with a deep stucco frieze running between them. A party wall with a chimney stack demarcates the historic subdivision of numbers 33 and 34 and separates the pitched roof into two sections, the roof to number 33 being higher than that at number 34 but of the same pitch.

The extensions to the west of 33 and 34 Market Place all have flat roofs with skylights and contain various south-facing window bays onto the Corn Exchange Arcade.

Formerly listed as Trustee Savings Bank.