11 And 12, Market Place

This building comprises two town houses, now used as a house and shop. It dates from the late 16th and 17th centuries, with substantial remodelling and brick facing occurring around the early 18th century. The front is brick, featuring a flared header bond, red brick quoins and dressings, and a Flemish bond brick right side wall similarly detailed. It has a Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. The building is in an L-shape, with three storeys and a four-window front. A shop front, dating from approximately 1890 to 1900, has twisted columns with acanthus leaf capitals, acanthus leaf consoles to a moulded cornice, and two double doors with cut-glass panels. The mid-19th century windows are horned sashes with gauged brick segmental arches to their heads, featuring decorative keystones. A moulded wood cornice runs along the top. The roof is hipped, with lateral and end stacks. A similar three-window range, along with an 18th-century doorway, is on the right side wall. A one-bay block extending from the right side wall has a six-panelled door with an overlight and moulded brackets supporting a flat hood. A two-storey and attic rear wing, likely from the 17th century, is constructed of Flemish bond brick with flared headers, a double-gabled tile roof, and brick lateral and rear stacks. A rear door features stained glass panels from the late 19th century. The side wall has late 19th-century bordered sashes with coloured glass borders, along with a dormer with a two-light leaded casement. Internally, there is a late 19th-century dog-leg staircase with iron balusters, alongside a Lampson-Paragon pneumatic tube. A left-side first-floor room contains panelling to the left side and rear. The rear wing’s early 18th-century quarter-turn staircase features moulded balusters. A fine late 19th-century fireplace with a tiled surround is found in the rear room. The brick cladding obscures substantial remains of a timber-frame, probably jettied, with three storeys, an L-shaped plan, and a tenoned-purlin roof structure featuring tie-beam and collar trusses with kneed principals.