20, Market Place

Number 20 Market Place is a building from the 18th century featuring a silver grey brick facade with red quoins and window dressings. It has a bracketed, moulded wood cornice and a parapet with stone coping. The building stands three storeys high and has five sash windows with glazing bars. The central portion, which consists of three bays, projects forward and is topped with a pediment that has a crowning cornice. The tympanum includes a semi-circular red brick panel. The ground floor has an altered 19th-century shop front with cast iron corner pillars and a tiled plinth and sides, although no glazing bars remain. There are massive reproduction panelled doors leading to a carriageway entrance on the western side. Number 20 is part of a group that includes Nos 20 to 36 (even), a barn at the rear of Nos 32 to 34, the Town Hall, and Nos 5 to 31 (odd) opposite.