1 AND 3, MARKET SQUARE (See details for further address information)

This is a mid-19th century house with a shop, altered in the late 19th century. It is located on the west side of Market Square, Crewkerne. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a Ham Hill stone plinth and dressings, and has a slate roof, hipped at the corner, with brick stacks to the left gable and right-of-centre. The two-storey facade has a seven-window range, with three windows on either side of a central canted bay. The upper floors have late 19th-century horned sash windows with two panes per sash, set within moulded architraves and keystones. There is one window on the corner canted bay, and three to each side. The right-hand side, facing Market Square, has horned tripartite sashes flanking a two-pane sash. A moulded cornice and blocking course runs across both facades, and originally there was a platband above banded rustication to the ground floor. Modern shopfronts occupy the ground floor, with a door and window to the far left and a brick infill to the main door on the corner, which was originally set back under corbelling to the first floor. The interior is understood to have been substantially altered. An old photograph indicates the building initially had only one window facing the Market Square and was abutted by a lower, older structure to the right; there is no visible vertical joint between them.