47, Market Square

47 Market Square is a substantial town house, now used as offices, built in 1698, as indicated by the datestone. The building has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features rendered timber framing with stucco dressings, concrete plain-tile and lead roofs, and brick stacks. The structure has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys plus attics high.

The front of the building is symmetrical with five windows, showcasing storeybands and rusticated stucco quoins. The upper windows are 12-pane sashes. A central projecting four-storey tower has similar windows on the first and second floors, and three keyed oval windows at the top stage, which are framed in moulded limestone-rectangular shapes. The front oval window is blind and inscribed "B/IM/1698". The turret features a moulded wooden cornice and an ogee tiled roof topped with a ball finial and wrought-iron weathervane.

The hipped roof of the main range has a central lead flat and a wooden modillion cornice that returns on both sides. The ground floor includes a central doorway with a moulded segmental-arched eared stucco architrave, flanked by small-pane shop windows beneath a deep moulded cornice, likely all from the 20th century. The left side has two sashes per floor above a 19th-century ground-floor extension with a large small-pane window. The right side features some narrower sashes and altered windows. The rear has three truncated stacks, each with three linked shafts.

Inside, the upper floors of the tower retain a dog-leg stair with a heavy moulded handrail, closed string, barleytwist-on-vase balusters, and some turned pendants. Along with Nos. 49 and 50, it forms a prominent group on an island site.