2 Market Street

2 Market Street is a symmetrical terrace built in the late Georgian style. It features four two-storey, three-window classical frontages, flanked by two three-storey, three-window advanced end pavilions with hipped roofs. The front of Nos 1 to 4 is 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 the windows are sash style with glazing bars, except for No 4, which has 12-pane windows on the first and second floors. Nos 1, 3, 4, and 5 have lugged architraves, with No 1 featuring reversed ogee tops, and Nos 3 to 5 having 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 are treated similarly to those above. No 2 has 16-pane sashes set in segmental arched recesses with matching hood moulds.

There are later multi-paned shop fronts at No 3, dating from around 1870, and a modern shop front at No 4. No 5 features a 12-pane sash window in a segmental arched recess with a keystone, along with 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 has a six-panel door with a seven-pane fanlight, retaining original cornices and a fanlight in the hallway. No 2 has an arched entrance with two orders, a hood mould similar to the flanking windows, a six-panel door, and a five-pane fanlight. No 3 features a central half-glazed door and a six-panel door with a fanlight to the right. No 4 has a half-glazed door with a fanlight, while No 5 has an entrance similar 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 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. There is a whitewashed rubble extension to the rear, which is not of special interest.