25, MARKET HILL (See details for further address information)

No. 1 West Street, which includes No. 25 Market Hill, is a town house that has been divided into offices. It dates from the mid-18th century and has been altered in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with the front rendered, and features a hipped plain-tile roof and brick lateral stacks. It has a U-shaped plan and consists of two storeys and an attic, with a five-window range.

The central entrance has a six-panel, part-glazed door with a moulded wood surround, set within an open porch supported by unfluted Roman Ionic columns and pilasters, topped with an entablature and pediment. This entrance is accessed by four stone steps, and there is a low wrought-iron gate and railings leading to the porch. The ground and first floors have 19th-century plate-glass sash windows with moulded rendered surrounds and sills, while a 20th-century shop window is located to the right. Additional architectural details include a plinth, rusticated quoins, boxed eaves, and a pair of flat-roofed dormer windows.

The left side elevation facing Market Hill is made of red brick on a limestone rubble plinth and features a six-panel door with panelled reveals and a fanlight above a round-arched head, along with 12-pane sash windows.

Inside, No. 1 has an important room on the first floor at the rear right, which includes a large Venetian window on the back elevation with fluted Roman Doric columns and a dentilled cornice. The room also features a fine chimneypiece with an eared wood surround, an ornamental relief on the central plaque, and veined grey marble slips, along with a dentilled plaster cornice and ceiling with a later rosette.

No. 25 has a large ground-floor room, likely the former dining room, which includes a sideboard recess at one end flanked by six-panelled cupboard doors. The cupboards have round arch heads, and the recess features a round trefoil head that adds a Gothick touch. The staircase hall contains a fitted corner cupboard with a semi-domed head. The staircase, probably rearranged in the early 19th century, features turned balusters with columns on bulbous feet, column newels, and a ramped handrail. The staircase is illuminated by a skylight above, with a deep cove below, and there are two elliptical-arched openings at the top landing.