Braemar House

Braemar House is a house and former shop comprising two parts: the main front facing Kerry Street and the former shop with a gable end to Kerry Street and a facade to Market Square, adjoining Grosvenor.

The Kerry Street front is two storeys with an attic and cellar. The ground floor is of brick with a painted rendered upper floor, boxed eaves, and a slate roof. A red brick right end chimney sits on the ridge above the junction with the Market Square range, and a rebuilt brick stack stands on the rear left. A small flat-roofed dormer with an iron casement pair window is positioned to the right. On the first floor, three small-paned iron casement pairs are set flush to the wall under the eaves. The ground floor displays Flemish bond brickwork on a rubble stone high base, with openings not aligned with the windows above. The door to the right of centre is flanked by two 19th-century canted bay windows with hipped slate roofs and 2-4-2-pane sash lights. The door is accessed up five stone steps with an iron rail on the left side. It has a thin moulded architrave and a flush-panelled six-panel door with the top two panels glazed. A timber post to the left of the left jamb may indicate timber framing or a narrowing of the doorway. The bays sit on brick bases, with the right one featuring a two-light cellar light immediately under the sill of the centre sash. A ledged low basement door descends stone steps just left of the door. At the far left is a framed ledged door with a renewed cambered head and two stone steps.

The end gable of the Market Square range has recently had square-framed timber framing exposed in the upper floors, showing evidence that the Market Square front has been raised slightly. The ground floor is Flemish-bond red brick with a horned 4-pane sash with a blue brick sill over a rubble basement with steps down to a ledged door to the left of centre and a fixed window to the right with a brick cambered head. The front range to Market Square is one bay, continuous with Grosvenor to the right. It has a painted brick ground floor and rendered first floor with a slate roof and timber small modillions to the eaves cornice. A small gabled dormer with bargeboards and a modern casement pair sits above a first-floor iron small-paned window on the wall face (as on the Kerry Street facade). The ground floor features a big projecting shop front reached by a flight of seven renewed steps. The late 19th-century shop front has a plate glass tall 2-light full-length window on each side of a central half-glazed door (originally double doors, now made into one), with a narrow light in each return. A fascia and cornice with a painted brick base complete the front. A plain iron rail sits on the left side of the steps, and a plain iron railing encloses a raised cobbled square to the left of the steps.

The rear elevation has a rendered upper floor and three tiny windows, two with iron casements and the middle one small-paned. A modern brick lean-to stands against the rear. A red brick single bay to the left has a cambered-headed window on each floor with leaded lights and an iron opening light.

Internally, an entrance passage leads to rear stairs. The south ground floor room has a six-panel door, two cross-axial beams, and a later 19th-century black veined marble fireplace on the back wall. The right hand ground floor room has an axial beam. A winding oak staircase with square balusters and a thin hand rail ascends to a landing. The first floor rooms have rough beams and plank doors. The attic contains two timber-framed partitions: the south one with a tie-beam and collar truss, and the other plastered. The shop at the north end has one chamfered beam. A cellar beneath the house and shop features a cobbled floor.