Chapter 2 Bar and 7, Market Place

Chapter 2 Bar and No. 7 Market Place is an inn and shop dating from the mid-18th century, though it likely has earlier origins. The building was re-roofed and altered around 1913 after a fire. It is constructed of red brick in English garden-wall bond, with the front of No. 5 rendered and largely covered by ivy. There is a stone carriage arch, a timber eaves cornice on No. 7, and a pantile roof featuring a coped gable with a small kneeler on the right, along with brick stacks at both ends and in the center. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a four-window front.

No. 5 features a plain doorcase with panelled double doors. To the left of the doorway is a canted bay window with small-pane sashes, and to the right is an unequal thirty-pane sash window, both with painted stone sills. Further to the right, there is an elliptical carriage arch made of rusticated voussoirs. On the first floor, there are three sixteen-pane sash windows, and in the attic, two oriel windows sit beneath barge-boarded gables.

No. 7 has a shop front with panelled pilasters and a moulded cornice supported by carved brackets. To the left of the shop front is a recessed glazed door next to a four-light canted bay window above a panelled riser. The door and windows feature cambered transoms. The first-floor window is a four-pane sash with a stone sill and wedge lintel, and there is a flat-topped dormer with a sash window in the attic.

The Chapter 2 Bar, formerly known as The King's Head, is historically significant for its association with Edmund Burke, who was secretary to Lord Rockingham from 1756 and served as MP for Malton from 1780 to 1794.