5 Market Street

5 Market Street is a late Georgian style building featuring four two-storey, three-window classical frontages, flanked by two three-storey, three-window advanced 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 display 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. Nos 1, 3, 4, and 5 feature lugged architraves, with No 1 having reversed ogee tops, and Nos 3 to 5 displaying moulded keystones. No 2 has Tudor type hood moulds with moulded keystones and foliated stops, while No 6 has voussoir lintels. The ground floor windows of No 1 have similar treatments. No 2 has 16-pane sashes set in segmental arch recesses with hood moulds. No 3 has a later multi-paned shop front, said to be from around 1870, and No 4 has a modern shop front. No 5 features a 12-pane sash window in a segmental arched recess with a keystone and a modern bay shop front, while No 6 has a bay shop front as well.

The central arched entrance to No 1 is surrounded by a bracketed hood on pilasters and features a six-panel door with a seven-pane fanlight, retaining original cornices and fanlight in the hallway. No 2 has an arched entrance with a hood mould, 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 has 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 features a two-window scribed render that stretches to the bridge, with similar window treatments. The right end wall of No 6 is also scribed render. A whitewashed rubble extension to the rear is not of special interest.