4, Market Street

This is a house with a shop on the ground floor, built around 1830. It is located on Market Street in Dartmouth. The construction is mixed, with stone sidewalls and a timber-framed front, the front being rendered to resemble ashlar. There is a stack in the party wall on the left side and a rear stack with chimneyshafts rendered in brick and some old pots. The roof is slate. The house was built with its end facing the street, featuring two rooms originally, with a staircase between.

The three-storey front has a symmetrical design with three windows. The front is bowed between pilaster strips and the stucco is lightly blocked, giving the appearance of ashlar. The shop front has a central doorway with part-glazed double doors, a plain overlight, and single display windows on each side with glazing bars and flanking pilasters topped with scroll consoles. The first floor has original tall 6/9-pane sash windows, each with a small cast-iron balcony. The second floor has 12-pane sashes, with the central window being blind. Deep eaves with a plain soffit and a hipped roof with canted sides complete the exterior.

The left side elevation, facing Union Street, has three bays and includes some blind windows, as well as 12- and 16-pane sashes. A central round-headed doorway has a flat stucco architrave, an original panelled door, and a fanlight with patterned glazing bars. Similarly patterned glazing bars are found in the round-headed ground-floor sash windows.

Inside, original details remain, including an open-string stick-baluster staircase with a mahogany handrail and a curtail step.

The surrounding area was developed in the late 1820s and 1830s on land that previously comprised an infilled tidal mill pool, and contains a notable group of early 19th-century buildings around the Market Square.