18 And 20, Market Place

Two houses, now a house and shop, were built in the early 19th century. A later 17th-century wing extends to the rear, and an early 16th/17th-century house is attached to the rear of that. The front is of coursed limestone rubble, plastered. The roof is gabled, with Welsh slate and concrete tiles to the rear, and includes brick end stacks. The building is L-shaped. It is three storeys high and has a 3-window front. A late 19th-century shop front contains square bay windows on either side of a late 19th-century half-glazed door; a late 18th-century six-panelled door with an overlight is to the left. The windows are 6-pane sashes, but the glazing bars have been removed from the lower windows. They are set within keyed stone lintels. A fluted cornice with decorative features tops the front. The two-storey rear wing, dating from the late 17th century, is attached to the early 16th/17th-century block, built of limestone rubble with a gabled corrugated iron roof and a stone end stack. It has a two-unit plan and two storeys, with first-floor windows containing 3- and 2-light wood mullions with ovolo moulding. The interior of the main building features an early 19th-century dog-leg staircase with winders to the rear left. The 17th-century rear wing includes chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a mid-18th-century doorway with a dentilled cornice on the ground floor. The late 16th building to the rear has a scrolled bracket supporting a ground floor beam, a late 16th-century winder staircase, a moulded stone arched fireplace and two reset small 13th-century lancet windows to the left.