7 & 7a Market Street

The buildings comprise a terraced house and shop at 7 and 7a Market Street. The house and shop at number 7 dates to the late 19th century and is built of painted stucco with a slate roof. It is three storeys high and two bays wide, positioned slightly to the right of the main frontage, with long and short quoins to the upper floors and a raised band between the first and second floors. The top floor has two horned 12-pane sashes with bracketed sills. The first floor features a large, canted oriel to the left, with plate glass sashes, rounded angle shafts, and a dentil cornice. To the right is a plate glass sash with a bracketed sill. A late 19th-century full-width shop front has a fascia and moulded cornice, extending around the base of the oriel, with pilasters on either side. The shop front has plate glass windows and a canted, glazed shop door with an overlight. The house door to the right has two long, thin panels and an overlight. At the rear is a painted rendered gable, 20th-century windows, and a red brick chimney. The buildings overlook a narrow court in front of number 7A.

Number 7A is constructed of rubble stone, formerly colour-washed, with a close-eaved roof, and is three storeys high with three bays. The top floor has three long, louvred windows with brick sills. The first floor has three larger windows with timber lintels, brick sills, and 12-pane sashes, which are not aligned with the louvred openings above, and the leftmost window is positioned in the angle of the main house and a rear wing. The ground floor has a window with a concrete lintel to the extreme left, a door in the centre, and two 12-pane sashes with timber lintels to the right. The door is within a 20th-century concrete frame. The left end wall features a massive external chimneybreast with a sloping offset to the lower left.

The interior of the shop has been altered, featuring iron columns within the shop window display. A rear room has a plain staircase with square balusters and later 19th-century turned newels. An earlier 18th-century sash window with thick glazing bars is also present. The first floor flat contains a Victorian fireplace on the back wall of the main room and on the end wall of a small north room. The roof structure consists of three collar trusses, with two pegged pine trusses in the rear wing.

Number 7A has an altered ground floor with two covered beams and stone flags. A blocked door is visible in the north end room. A narrow rear stair rises within. The first floor has a boarded room to the north, and the loft has a former ventilated workshop with a renewed collar truss roof and seven side windows with wooden louvres, the louvres raised by fins attached to a turning centre post, alongside a broad north end window.