34, Market Place

No. 34, Market Place, is a house dating to circa the 17th century, which was remodelled in the 19th century. It is built of rendered stucco, with a slate roof featuring gable ends and a gable to the rear wing. It has a rendered axial stack to the left of the entrance, backing onto a passage, and a circa 17th century stone rubble end stack with a moulded granite cap on the right.

The original plan has been altered, and is now uncertain due to restricted access during a 1986 survey. The current arrangement suggests a two-room or cross/through-passage plan, and it may have originally been part of a row of town houses. The original layout potentially featured a three-room and cross/through-passage plan, with an inner room set back on the left – now incorporated into the adjoining property at No. 2 Chapel Street – and heated by an end stack. The hall, now the left-hand room, is heated by an axial stack backing onto the passage, while the lower right-hand room is heated by an end stack. It remains unclear whether the circa 17th century moulded stack on the right serves this house, the adjacent Warmington House, or if the two houses share it. In the late 17th century, a single-room rear wing was added to the rear of the hall, and circa the mid-18th century, a stair projection was added to the rear of the left-hand inner room (now part of No. 2 Chapel Street). The date of the house’s division is unknown.

The building is two storeys high, with an attic and basement. The front is symmetrical, with a two-window arrangement. It features double four-pane sashes to the right and left of a central, part-glazed 20th-century door, which is sheltered by a part-glazed timber porch with a flat roof. The first floor has two early 19th-century hornless twelve-pane sashes, and the attic is lit by two gabled dormers with six-pane sashes.

The interior was inaccessible at the time of survey and its details are therefore unknown.