84-90, Lower Market Street

This is a terrace of four small town houses built in the early 19th century on a site with earlier origins dating back to the 17th century. The houses are constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings, including a sill string on the first floor. They have a dry slate roof with eaves that slightly project, and brick and rendered chimney stacks from the 20th century.

The houses follow a double-depth plan, consisting of two pairs, each with a central entrance and a passage (ope) on the left. The façade is two storeys high and has an overall appearance of seven windows. Three windows are blind: one central above the doorways of numbers 88 and 90 (on the left), and one above each of the other doorways. The remaining windows are late 19th or 20th century, with four panes and horns. The doors are mostly late 20th century, comprising panelled and top-glazed designs, with the exception of a wider planked door leading to the passage.

The interior was only partially inspected. The passage features oak lintels resting on stone corbels at the rear, suggesting an earlier building core.