44, Market Square

44 Market Square is a shop and dwelling, likely dating from the 17th century, with remodels from the early 18th and 19th centuries. The building features rendered timber framing with stucco dressings and a lead flat roof with rendered stacks. It is a single range, three stories high, with three fronts containing two, five, and two windows. Each window is topped with a heavy moulded wooden cornice, and the building has rusticated vermiculated quoins and architraved 19th-century sash windows with similar quoins and stucco wedge lintels. The west front and part of the north front retain a first-floor jetty, featuring a shaped bracket at the angle, a canted ground-floor bay window to the north, and a 20th-century doorway with stucco quoins to the west. Inside, there is some fielded panelling on the ground and first floors, while the upper floors have two-panelled doors and an early 18th-century open-well stair with winders, a moulded closed string and handrail, and turned balusters. This building was probably originally a substantial townhouse. Along with Nos. 45 and 52, it forms a prominent group on an island site.