5-8, Market Square

A terrace of four shops and dwellings built in the early 19th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a hipped slate roof and brick ridge stacks. It follows a double-depth plan and has a four-storey, nine-window front. A carriageway is situated on the far right. The rest of the ground floor houses shop fronts, with the leftmost shop featuring a central, part-glazed door, an ornamental overlight, and large shop windows with glazing bars that may be original or in a Georgian style. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows with intersecting glazing bars, set within gauged brick, round-arched heads, except for the window above the carriageway, which has a flat-arched head. Similar windows are present on the second floor, and the third floor has nine-pane sashes, all with gauged brick, flat-arched heads. Four giant pilasters to the upper floors, topped with rubbed brick Tuscan capitals, divide the terrace into two-bay sections, with one bay above the carriageway. A corbelled, moulded brick eaves cornice completes the exterior. The rear elevation shows irregular glazing of sash windows, sections of coursed limestone rubble walling, and thin timber framing above the carriageway. Inside No. 8, the stone cellar contains a double wave-moulded, Tudor-arched oak doorway. A panelled room on the ground floor rear features arcaded fluting to the frieze, a moulded cornice, and a boxed spine beam with run-out stops. A fireplace dating to approximately 1830 is constructed from veined white marble.