27 and 29 Market Place

A terrace of two shops, early C19 and earlier, integrated to from a restaurant at the ground floor. Altered in the C20.

Materials: brick, the two bays to the east rendered with incised lines imitating ashlar and a plain clay-tile roof. The two bays to the west have over-painted brick elevations with a slate-covered roof.

Exterior: two storeys with attics. The eastern two bays have a projecting shop-front on the ground floor with canted bay windows each side of a central glazed door. On the 1st floor there are 2 sashes with narrow edge panes. Above is a string cornice and parapet and there are two hip-roofed dormers with six pane casement windows. The roof is pitched with an end stack to the west, and a stack in front of the ridge to the east.

To the rear is a one and half storey, angled wing with a moulded brick course at the eaves and a pitched clay tile roof surmounted by a lateral stack. The gable end is rendered with a six-over-six casement window.

The two bay range to the west has a C20 shop front of central half-glazed door and fanlight, with canted corbelled shop window to each side. On the first floor are two six-over-six sash windows with horns and a cornice band above. The mansard roof has 2 semi-circular shallow dormers with radiating glazing bars in the heads. The west gable wall has a brick end stack. To the rear is a 1½ storey long angled wing that runs behind number 31.

Interior: the ground floor is open-plan with modern fixtures, fittings and finishes. The exposed brick party wall to the west is cranked mid-way and comprises red brick laid in English garden wall bond.