12, Market Square

No. 12 Market Square is an estate agency building dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame with brick infill at the rear and part of the ground floor front. The remainder of the building is constructed from brick, which has been whitewashed on the right side. Notable architectural details include a moulded wooden eaves cornice with modillions and a moulded brick cornice with ball ornamentation at the first floor level on the right side. There is a wooden board across the front at the first floor level. The building has a slate roof that is hipped to the right, with a brick stack on the right and a stack of thin brick on the left. It stands two storeys tall with an attic and has four bays. The ground floor has been altered to include a square projecting 19th-century shop front with a door in the left-hand bays and a 20th-century window to the right. The first floor features barred sash windows, and there are two gabled dormers with barred sashes.