12, Market Place

This is a former inn, later used as a restaurant and bakery, and now a shop, likely dating from the early to mid-19th century, with remodelling in the late 19th century. The front is of solid render, topped by a slate roof. Each end of the ridge has a red-brick chimney with cream-brick bands and a cap; the cap of the left-hand chimney has been removed. The building is three storeys high, with a four-window front.

The ground floor has a late 19th-century shop front, featuring a cart entrance on the left, all beneath a deeply projecting wooden box-cornice. The shop front contains two display windows on bases of green glazed brick, partly over-painted, canted towards a recessed glazed door with a solid moulded panel at the bottom. The display windows have shafts with molded capitals, with small brackets rising to the window tops. The shop door has a shaped wooden cresting along the base of a plain fanlight, with a similar feature forming a fringe along the street-facing opening. Behind the fringe is a panelled wooden ceiling. The doorstep features a colored mosaic with the inscription "FRIENDSHIP'S CAFE". The cart entrance has panelled triple-doors. The upper storeys have pilaster strips with horizontal channelling, crossed by a plain raised band above the second storey. The windows are mostly sash windows with horns and margin-panes; those in the second storey have a shaped and perforated fringe on brackets at the top of the opening. The third window from the left in the second storey has French windows, each leaf containing two panes. The right-hand window is a canted wooden bay in the second storey, with a two-light sash in the third storey; the bay has an entablature with a cornice on paired brackets, and the middle sashes have an extra upright glazing-bar. There is a deeply projecting eaves-cornice on paired brackets.

The interior of the shop features two fluted columns, likely made of iron. A white marble chimney-piece existed on the first floor in 1989, and there was colored glass in the staircase window. Earlier features may be hidden under plaster. The building is included for group value.