The Ideal Bookshop

The Ideal Bookshop is a late Georgian building featuring three storeys with stucco elevations. The facade has two and three windows facing Great Darkgate Street, one window on the corner, and three windows on Market Street. It has a slate roof with bracket eaves and a cement rendered chimney stack. The small-pane sash windows have cills, with No 29 displaying moulded margins and opaque glazing on the windows facing Market Street.

The shop front at No 29 is modern but retains one giant pilaster at the entrance, leading into a narrow hall. No 31 features a 1930s Art Deco shop front with a modern fascia that wraps around the splayed corner, including a set-back stencilled half-glazed door, a marbled stallriser with ventilators, and a mosaic pavement. There is a modern window to the left of the shop front on Market Street, along with a six-panel door at No 1.