16, Market Street

No. 16 Market Street is a house dating from the early 16th century, with alterations from the 17th century and a 20th-century addition. It features plastered cob and rubble walls and has a gable-ended thatch roof. The building has a rubble lateral stack at the front with a brick chimney and a brick stack at the right gable end. The layout consists of a two-room and through-passage plan, with a smaller room on the right and a hall on the left, which is heated by the front lateral stack. Originally, the hall was open to the roof with a central hearth, likely extending from one end to the other. It was ceiled in the early to mid-17th century when the stack was inserted. There are 19th and 20th-century outshuts added at the rear.

The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical front featuring two windows. The late 19th-century windows are four-pane sashes, except for a small paned bow window from the early 19th century on the ground floor to the left. A contemporary six-panelled door is located to the right of centre.

Inside, there is a cobbled through passage. To the left side of the passage, a 17th-century plank and muntin screen has simply moulded edges, with the left side being more crudely finished. The door to this screen is made from a section of high-quality 17th-century panelling found on the first floor. The hall fireplace features a chamfered wooden lintel and dressed stone jamb on the right, which is chamfered on the outside. A small 19th-century leaded pane light is set into the right-hand side wall of the fireplace, which also contains a cloam oven. The fireplace on the first floor also has a chamfered wooden lintel. One original timber of cruck form survives in the roof, with a morticed apex, although the ridge collar and purlins are now missing. It is unclear if the truss is smoke-blackened, but some smoke-blackened rafters do remain.