45 And 52, Market Square

Nos. 45 and 52 Market Square are two shops and dwellings dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century and the 18th century to early 19th century. They feature rendered light timber framing and Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. No. 45 has a narrow three-storey front facing east, which includes a tripartite sash window at the first floor, a four-pane sash window above, and narrow sashes in the cant to the left, all from the 19th century. The shop front is from the 20th century, and the roof is hipped to the front. No. 52, facing west, has a four-storey gabled front that is likely older at the ground and first floors, featuring a moulded wooden cornice above a renewed four-light first-floor casement. The front wall is set back with further renewed casements, and it has an early 20th-century shop front. Both buildings back onto a 17th-century stack with diagonal shafts, which rises from a lower roofline. Inside No. 52, there is a winder stair, and on the first floor, there are intersecting chamfered beams and some elaborate bolection-moulded panelling on the window wall. Together with No. 44, they form a prominent group on an island site.