6, Market Street

No. 6 Market Street is a house built around 1830, constructed mainly of plastered stone rubble with slate-hung timber-framed upper floors at the front. It features end stacks with rendered brick chimney shafts and old pots, topped with a slate roof. The house was originally built as the southern half of a pair with No. 7. It has a layout that is one room deep and two rooms wide, with a central staircase.

The exterior has three storeys and an attic, presenting a symmetrical two-window front. The ground floor is plastered, while the upper floors are slate-hung. On the ground floor, there are 8/12-pane sash windows on either side of a central doorway, which is set back two steps and features a six-panel door beneath a plain triangular-headed fanlight and an attractive open-pediment hood supported by carved putti. The first floor has French windows with glazing bars and margin lights leading to a balcony, which is fenced with ornate cast-ironwork that includes Vitruvian scrolls and anthemiae. The second floor has 16-pane sash windows. The deep eaves have a plain plastered soffit, and the gable-ended roof includes a gabled dormer with a four-pane sash window and shaped bargeboards. The rear elevation is plastered and features three round-headed fixed-pane windows with glazing bars, along with additional horned 12-pane sashes.

The interior has not been inspected but is expected to be of interest. The area was developed in the 1820s and 1830s on the site of a large infilled mill pool and contains a notable group of early 19th-century buildings around the Market Square.