44-54, Market Place

This is a three-storey terrace of shops and offices built apparently after 1783, extending eastwards from the Old Bell in Warminster. The building is constructed of coursed and squared rubble stone with a stucco front, featuring moulded strings above the ground and first floors, a moulded cornice, a parapet, and a moulded cope. Corner pilasters define the corners of the building. The windows are late-glazed sashes with segmental heads, set within moulded architraves divided by pilasters, arranged as 2+3+1+5+5 from right to left. A segmental coach arch is situated on the right-hand side of the ground floor, featuring a keystone, and leads to stables behind the Old Bell.

Nos. 44 and 46 have modern shop fronts. A narrow through passage is framed by pilasters and round-headed spandrels. No. 48 has a late 19th-century shop front with a rectangular traceried fanlight above the recessed door. No. 50 retains some elements of the mid 19th-century shop front, including a panelled pilaster to the left, and preserves one of the original entrance pilasters. A pedimented doorway in the centre of Nos. 52 and 54 features plain Doric pilasters and a glazed door.