23 Market Street

This is a three-storey building with stucco front, presumably over timber framing, fronting both High Street and Market Street. The mullioned windows appear to be of ashlar stone. The building has natural slate roofs with red brick stacks and a single depth plan with a continuous jetty running along Market Street.

The building comprises two adjoining properties: No. 1 High Street with one gabled bay facing High Street, and No. 23 Market Street with two gabled bays facing Market Street. The ground floor of No. 1 contains a late 19th-century shopfront with a centre door facing High Street and two further display windows positioned under the jetty. The shopfront's appearance matches a late 19th-century photograph, though some changes have been made. The shop currently operates as Abergavenny Bookshop and has extended into No. 11. The jetty is supported on seven iron posts that were presumably installed in the mid-19th century and appear identical to those shown in late 19th-century photographs.

The first floor features a 3-light mullion-and-transom window with 4-centred heads and a dripmould facing High Street, and 2-light mullion-and-transom windows in either gable facing Market Street. These windows are positioned off-centre. Beneath the join of the gables, each house has a small 20th-century window, though the openings appear on early photographs, with an additional one to the right on No. 23. The gables contain a 2-light mullion-and-transom window facing High Street, and plain 2-light and 3-light windows facing Market Street; the latter is a post-Second World War insertion.

The gables feature fretted bargeboards and steeply pitched roofs. A tall 3-flued stack rises from the rear wall of No. 1. The chimney formerly on the gable of No. 23 has been removed.

The shop interiors, which are now run together, retain no historic features. The rear elevation was not inspected.