36 And 38, Lower Market Street

36 and 38 Lower Market Street is a town house dating from the 16th century, which was remodeled around 1680 and refronted in the 19th century. The building has a rendered exterior that replaces stucco on rubble, with part of the front rebuilt in 1989. It features a dry slate roof and two 17th-century granite axial stacks with dressed weatherings. The structure has a single-depth front range that runs parallel to the street, along with a range at right angles on the right side, which extends at the rear from the late 17th century. The building is two storeys high and has a five-window range. The windows are 20th-century copies of hornless sashes with glazing bars, except for the window on the right, which had its sashes removed at the time of the survey. There are three 20th-century shop fronts with glazing bars. The rear right-hand wing, which was not accessible during the survey, previously had two 17th-century two-light wooden mullioned windows and a reused 18th-century sash with thick glazing bars.

During the 1989 rebuilding, many 17th-century chamfered fragments were discovered and were incorporated back into the wall as rubble, now rendered over. The interior was not accessible at the time of the survey, but when inspected in 1989, it contained two 16th-century oak roof structures with trusses featuring curved feet, morticed cranked collars, and threaded purlins. The right wing had a 16th-century or early 17th-century chamfered oak beam and joist floor structures. Notable 17th-century features include two chamfered granite fireplaces, ovolo-moulded ceiling joists in the central room, two late 17th-century scratch-moulded doors in ovolo-moulded frames (with a similar door removed for safe-keeping), a fragment of a carved and plaster frieze between ground-floor rooms, and evidence of a plaster barrel ceiling visible in the roof space. The 18th-century features include several two-panel doors with HL hinges and an open-well stair with a 19th-century balustrade.