3, Market Hill

No. 3 Market Hill is a building that has served as a house, school, and now offices. It dates back to 1683 and was restored around 1980. The structure is made of rendered limestone rubble with an ashlar right-hand lateral stack and features a stone slate hipped roof with a flat, leaded center. It has a double-depth plan with a right-hand stair and stands three storeys tall, including an attic and cellar, with a three-window range.

The front of the building has a first-floor drip course and an entrance located to the right of center. This entrance features an early 19th-century timber bracketed pediment, an ashlar surround, and a six-panel door, with wrought-iron rails leading up to the steps. The ground floor has early or mid-19th-century six-over-six pane sash windows, paired to the left, while the first floor showcases bolection-moulded architraves around late 18th-century six-over-six pane sashes. The second floor retains original stone-mullioned and transomed cross windows with cavetto moulding. The west front includes a continuous ground-floor label mould and first-floor string, with bolection-moulded paired ground-floor six-over-six pane sashes and original three-light and central two-light cross windows above. There are also two late 20th-century hipped dormers that replaced a central dormer. A central sundial inscribed with "1683" is present, and two similar cross windows provide light to the stairs on the right-hand return.

Inside, the building features a fine late 17th-century dogleg stair with turned balusters and square panelled newels, along with an uncut string. The rear right-hand room is fully panelled and includes a fire surround. The vaulted cellar and 18th-century roof have a plastered central room and a three-plank door inscribed "JG/1786". Original two-panel doors are also present, and the first floor features 19th-century Egyptian Revival hob grates in bolection-moulded surrounds. The front room boasts a fine 17th-century stone fire surround and overmantel from Castle House, which includes a carved central panel depicting a burning crocodile, flanked by two figures supporting a painted cartouche. The flat, leaded roof may have previously supported a lantern.