2, Market Place

No. 2 Market Place is a house and shop built around 1760. It features a limestone ashlar facade with limestone rubble at the rear and has a gabled concrete tile roof with an end stack made of stone finished in brick. The building has a two-unit plan, is two storeys tall with an attic, and presents a symmetrical three-window range. There are flat stone arches above a six-panelled door with an overlight and above six-pane sash windows. The building has raised storey bands and hipped dormers that contain mid 19th-century six-pane sashes. At the rear, there is a stair-turret. Inside, there is a mid 18th-century cupboard niche on the left, and the quarter-turn stairs with winders are complemented by a mid to late 19th-century balustrade. The elevation is of the same date and style as No. 1 High Street. The Eldridge family operated a shop here selling famous Woodstock steel jewelry to tourists visiting Blenheim Palace and attempted to prevent the construction of the Town Hall in front of their shop.