10 High Street

The building at 10 High Street is a roughly coursed and squared stone range with a slate roof, dating from the 17th century and built in a Jacobean style. It is two storeys high and symmetrically planned, consisting of a prominent three-window entrance range flanked by lower, single-window ranges that currently house shops. The central entrance range features an advanced, gabled bay with a segmentally arched entrance, and the upper storey is corbelled out. Above the entrance is a corbelled mullioned and transomed oriel window with leaded lights, a strapwork parapet, and a shaped gable with finials. The original full-height segmental openings on either side of the central gable now form windows to the adjacent shops. Above these are three-light mullioned and transomed windows with leaded glazing and pedimented heads, with shaped gablets breaking the eaves line. The lower side ranges are slightly recessed and flanked by outer pilasters topped with urn finials. Number 11 High Street retains a late 19th-century front with ornate panelled pilasters on either side, featuring a two-light mullioned and transomed window with leaded lights above.

A rear entrance, part of an extension dating from around 1879-80, connects to the market hall and is similar in design to the General Market entrance across the street. The segmentally arched entry has been restored with renewed doors and glazed tympanum. Stone shafts with foliate capitals support the arch, which features a stone rams-head key. Stepped terracotta corbelling follows the line of the steep stone coped gable above. A two-storey shop building projecting from the left side of this entrance is dated 1880. It has a stressed-angle entrance with panelled pilasters around the recessed doorway and at the ends of the shop windows. Blind brickwork fills the angled upper storey between the pilasters, and a stone panel carrying the date serves as a cornice. A heavy cast iron scrolled lantern is attached to the wall, and paired round-headed windows have a central stone shaft, terracotta rosettes, and a continuous hood mould on either side. A terracotta corbel table sits between the outer pilasters. The roof is hipped slate with lead finials.

The market hall itself is an eight-bay structure. It includes two permanent stalls or shops with late 19th-century detailing, located on either side of the entrance from High Street. The hall features timber trusses supported by cast iron columns with wrought iron braces, creating aisles.