23, Market Street

23 Market Street is a bakery with a shop and café, dating from the early 18th century, possibly with earlier origins, and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The front is finished in stucco, while the left side wall is timber-framed. It features a Welsh slate roof that is parapeted and hipped to the left, with no visible stack at the front. The narrow front faces the Market Place and is part of a longer range of buildings that includes a restaurant and bakery at the rear.

The building is three stories high with a single window range. The first floor has one 8/8-pane sash window, and the second floor has one 19th-century 4/8-pane horned sash window. The ground floor features a projecting 20th-century timber shopfront with plate glass windows, a glazed door, and a deep parapet above. The parapet is coped.

The interior has been partially inspected. There is a 20th-century staircase leading from the ground to the first floor, and an early 18th-century oak open well staircase with two turned balusters per tread, shaped cheek-pieces, and a ridged and corniced handrail leading to the second floor. The ground floor front has two unchamfered cross-axial beams supported by two wall posts, with a chamfered girding beam above on the left side. The first floor front has a similar arrangement of beams and wall posts, with a chamfered beam to the rear that has a step stop on the left. The first floor center room features a chamfered plastered beam with a run-out stop, and an early 19th-century four-panel door with a segmental-arched head and moulded architrave flanked by reeded pilasters. The first floor rear has a 20th-century interior.

An inspection of the rear ranges, either externally or internally, was not possible, but the rear wing is noted to have an area of timber-framing with brick infill on the right side.