6, Market Place

This is a shop with offices, built in the late 17th century and further developed in the early to mid-19th century. The front of the building is faced with stucco, likely over timber framing at the rear of the rear wing. It has a Welsh slate, parapeted roof with gables facing both the front and rear. A rendered stack is on the right side of the front range, and a rebuilt brick stack is at the rear.

The front range is four storeys high and has two windows on each floor. The first floor has plate glass sashes within elaborate architraves with deep friezes and pediments. The second floor has similar windows with eared architraves, and the third floor has windows with moulded architraves and projecting cills supported by square brackets. The ground floor has a 20th-century shopfront set within a mid-19th century surround, featuring pilaster strips with carved bracket tops, a bracketed frieze with a blind box and guilloche balustrade, and an entablature over a round-headed opening with a keyed architrave supported by brackets. Panelled pilaster strips define the corners of the building, and a moulded cill band runs below the second-floor windows. The building also has a rinceau frieze, moulded eaves cornice, and a coped parapet with dies at the left and right angles.

The rear wing has 19th-century sash windows and 20th-century casements to the left side. It features two late 17th or early 18th century two-light timber mullion-and-transom windows on the first floor, now with 20th-century glazing. Three raking dormers are visible on the left side.

Inside, the early to mid-19th century staircase has winders from the first to the third floor, stick balusters, a mahogany handrail, and shaped cheek-pieces. The front first floor contains a mid-19th century fireplace with bracketed marble, cornices and a ceiling rose. A 19th-century marble fireplace is on the front left of the second floor. The third floor front has chamfered stone fireplaces on the left and right. The rear wing's ground floor showcases boxed-out cross-axial beams, one roughly chamfered. The first floor rear includes a chamfered beam with run-out stops, supported by a bracketed top of a probable wall post. The roof structure of the rear wing features curved principals, butt purlins, and cranked collars.

The rear wing was originally the building fronting the Market Place, with the front range added after the demolition of the Shambles around 1830, following the Town Improvement Act of 1825.