28 And 29, Market Place

28 and 29 Market Place is a house that has been converted into shops, dated 1708 on the doorway of the left side wall. The front was remodeled around 1880 and features Flemish bond brick with flared headers, limestone quoins and dressings, and a late 19th-century banded club and plain-tile roof with crested ridge tiles and brick stacks. The building has a double-depth plan, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a three-window range. The late 19th-century shop front includes 20th-century doors and a decorative cast-iron parapet. Stone lintels with decorative keystones and chamfered rusticated architraves support late 19th-century sash windows. The early 18th-century cyma-moulded plinth and storey band, along with chamfered limestone quoins, add to its character. The late 19th-century bracketed eaves feature three gabled dormers with cast-iron balconies, crested ridge tiles, and finials. The hipped roof has a left internal stack. The left side wall displays gauged brick flat arches over late 19th-century sashes and a large late 19th-century window with a cornice next to the doorway, which is adorned with Tuscan pilasters and acanthus leaf brackets supporting a scrolled pediment featuring a coat of arms and the date 17/08, with a dropped key in the tympanum inscribed with the letter K. Inside, there is a central dog-leg staircase with a landing, featuring barley-sugar balusters on an open string, fine fret-cut brackets, a fluted newel post, and a panelled dado.