6 Market Street

6 Market Street is a late Georgian style building featuring four two-storey, three-window classical frontages, flanked by two three-storey, three-window end pavilions with hipped roofs. The frontages of Nos 1 to 4 are roughcast, while Nos 5 and 6 have scribed render. No 1 has end pilaster strips, and Nos 2 to 4 have rusticated quoins and plinths. The roofs are slate with wide boarded eaves and rendered and brick chimney stacks. All windows are sash with glazing bars, except for No 4, which has 12-pane windows on the first and second floors.

The windows of Nos 1, 3, 4, and 5 feature lugged architraves, with No 1 having reversed ogee tops, and Nos 3 to 5 having moulded keystones. No 2 has Tudor-style hood moulds with moulded keystones and foliated stops, while No 6 has voussoir lintels. The ground floor windows of No 1 are treated similarly to those above. No 2 has 16-pane sashes set in segmental arched recesses with hood moulds.

No 3 has a later multi-paned shop front, said to date from around 1870, while No 4 has a modern shop front. No 5 features a 12-pane sash window in a segmental arched recess with a keystone to the architrave and a modern bay shop front, and No 6 has a bay shop front as well.

The central arched entrance to No 1 is surrounded by a bracketed hood on pilasters, featuring a six-panel door and a seven-pane fanlight, which retains its original cornices and fanlight in the hallway. No 2 has an arched entrance of two orders with a hood mould similar to the flanking windows, a six-panel door, and a five-pane fanlight. No 3 has a central half-glazed door and a six-panel door with a fanlight to the right, while No 4 has a half-glazed door with a fanlight. No 5 has a similar entrance to No 2 but with a panelled architrave and a split six-panel door with a fanlight. No 6 features a six-panel door and fanlight, with ornamental Gothic railings to the left over the basement entrance and a cobbled pavement in front.

The Bridge Street elevation of No 1 has a two-window scribed render that stretches to the bridge, with similar window treatment. The right end wall of No 6 is also scribed render. A whitewashed rubble extension at the rear is not of special interest.