18 New market Street

This is a timber-framed house located at 18 New Market Street, dating from the 17th century. The house is lime rendered and colour-washed, with the timber-framing exposed on the first floor gable. It features a 20th-century tile roof, which replaced the original stone slates, and has a brick centre ridge stack.

The building is two storeys high and has a shallow L-shaped plan, with a long cross wing on the left side. The gable end facade of the cross wing displays close-studding and the plastered ends of two purlins, a wallplate, and a ridge-piece that jetties out at the first floor, which has a single window range. To the right, there is a slightly recessed area that originally contained another single-window range; the left ground floor window here has been replaced with a later wooden casement in a blocked doorway.

Most of the other windows feature very small rectangular leaded quarries set in metal-framed panels, with the majority being 3-light casements, while the ground floor room beneath the overhang has a 4-light window. The ground floor of the cross wing is slightly buttressed out at the sides.