8, Market Street

This is a late 18th-century house, later altered around 1970, now used as two shops. The construction is of coursed and squared limestone, with Ham Hill stone used for the doorcase, cornice, and parapet coping. The roof is slate. The original plan was double-depth, and the building was formerly symmetrical with a seven-window range. The shop on the right has a four-window front, while the shop on the left has a three-window front. The first floor has 20th-century plate-glass sash windows with projecting frames, each with a keyed stone lintel. The right-hand shop has a 20th-century shopfront covering the entire ground floor. To the far left of the left-hand shop is a tall, deep, open pedimented doorcase, originally from the centre of the building. It features engaged Tuscan-style columns, a triglyph frieze, a panelled soffit and a cast metal fanlight above a six-panel door, with smaller panels towards the centre. A lead downpipe with a bell-shaped hopperhead is located to the left of the doorcase. The interior remains uninspected.