23 Old Market Street

This terrace of houses, numbered 17 to 27 Old Market Street, was originally part of a larger mansion and has been converted for residential use. The buildings date to the 18th century and are constructed of stone, with number 17 finished with roughcast rendering and the others generally limewashed or painted. The roofs are steeply pitched and slate-covered, with rooflights and brick stacks at the ends and along the ridge and front.

The buildings are irregularly spaced, with most windows and doors featuring cambered heads and shallow reveals. The majority of the windows are 12-pane sashes, although number 17 has a mix of sash and UPVC casement windows, and a replaced boarded door with a deep hood. Number 19 retains the remains of a doorway with a hollow chamfer, and a corbelled-out wall above which once held a chimney. Number 21 has the remains of a relieving arch above a large ground floor window, while number 23 displays a similar relieving arch, and number 25 has larger 16-pane sashes set higher, with a broad relieving arch to the first floor and a modern-style door with an overlight. Number 27 is wider and features a tripartite sash window on the ground floor and a round-headed doorway with a panelled, part-glazed door and radial glazing bars. A smooth render quoin-strip is present. The roof of numbers 25 and 27 is formed of artificial slate and is not continuous with the rest of the terrace.

The original frontage of the building is at the rear, though it has been significantly altered. A projecting bay at number 25 likely marks the site of the original entrance. Numbers 21 and 23 have hoodmoulds over the first-floor windows, and number 19 has a hoodmould with the remnants of quadruple arched heads to the window lights, all with high, wide relieving arches. Glazing patterns vary throughout the terrace, and extensions have been added to the ground floor.

To the rear, some stone mullion windows with dripmoulds and bearing arches remain. Inside, a barrel-vaulted second floor runs throughout the building beneath the roof.