13, Market Place

No. 13 Market Place is a shop with a house above, dating from around 1453. It was built as part of the "New Works" by Bishop Bekynton and has been modified, likely in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The building is rendered and colorwashed, featuring a Welsh slate roof behind a parapet and a brick chimney stack.

The structure is L-shaped with three storeys and an attic, comprising two bays. The ground floor has a projecting shop front from the late 19th or early 20th century, which includes stone stallrisers, plain display windows, slim panelled pilasters, and a slim fascia with a cornice supported by large console brackets. The shop front has a lead flat roof, a five-panel door to the left with a double fanlight, and another part-glazed door in a shallow angled recess at the center.

On the first and second floors, there are 12-pane sash windows with exposed boxes. A 20th-century dentilled eaves course is supported by closely spaced brackets, with gutter lining and adjoining parapets. There is a rainwater stackhead and downpipe on the right side, along with a small flat-roofed dormer set low on the right. The stack is located on a raised coped verge to the right.

The interior has been partly inspected. The ground-floor front features four bays of a former six-compartment ceiling with moulded beams. The shop contains several important antique items, including a c1810 gesso, wood, and marble fire surround, as well as 18th-century carved joinery enclosing a steel joist. A 20th-century staircase leads to the first floor, which has a two-compartment ceiling. The rear wall includes a late 18th-century twelve-pane sash window set into an earlier flat arched opening with a double wave mould surround, and there are four-centred chamfered stone doorways to the ground and first floors. The floor is made of old random-width elm boards, and there is a stone newel stair to the rear, near the probable former position of a 15th-century garderobe. The roof frame is reputed to have been renewed in the 1950s.

This building is part of an outstanding late medieval planned urban group.