39, Market Square

39 Market Square is a shop and dwelling, now used as offices, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. The building features roughcast timber framing and has an old plain-tile roof with a rubble and brick end stack. It has a two-unit gable-fronted plan and stands two storeys plus attics high. The front displays renewed two- and three-light casements on the upper floors, along with a 20th-century shop window and entrance. The left side wall retains a horizontal-sliding sash window with old glazing, a four-panel door, and another 20th-century shop window. At the rear, a steep-pitched roof supports a massive rubble-based stack, likely shared with the adjacent Kings Arms Hotel, which has three rebuilt diagonal shafts. Inside, there are massive stop-chamfered beams with heavy square joists, a winder stair leading from the cellar to the attics, some two-panel doors, and a fragment of 17th-century panelling, along with a butt-purlin roof featuring curved windbraces. The building may have originally been part of the Kings Arms Hotel.