Site:   

10 - 12 Market Place, Town Centre

Grid Reference:    

SP 0415 6760

Description:

No 10

Shop, now offices, with accommodation above. Mid/late 19th century with mid 20th century alterations. Brick with stone dressings. Plain tiled roof with large gable facing street and large brick chimneystacks. 2 bays and 3 storeys plus attic with broad stone eaves cornice. String course at second floor level and second-floor sill level. Shop front has run of three windows set between doorways. Pilasters between openings support broad fascia board above which partly conceals moulded stonework of earlier shop fascia behind. Modern cross-glazed windows and part-glazed doors with fanlights. First and second floors have paired, canted oriel windows that rise through both floors and are of dressed stone with mullion and transom windows and with hipped slate roofs. Attic window of similar stone mullion and transom type and of four lights with scrolled stone panel above.

Nos. 11-12 (formerly The Royal Hotel)

Hotel, now public house. Late 19th century, altered late 20th century. Light orange brick with rendered stone dressings, rendered on ground floor, plain tiled roof and large ridge stacks. Main fa�ade of 4:3:2 bays, central bays being grouped beneath large gable projecting on console brackets. 3 storeys with modillion eaves cornice. Ground floor has tall inserted round-arched openings with hoodmoulds, original entrance beneath central gable has segmental-arched head. Also two wide entrances with double doors inserted in bays 5 and 9. First and second floor windows are arcaded and have rendered segmental-arched heads with raised keyblocks, brick pilasters, moulded stone sills, and a sill string at second floor level. The windows are modern replacements. Central gable has moulded detail and large ornate finial.

Significance:

These two buildings are of some architectural interest with their oriel windows and gabling but are included principally for their townscape value as they impart a sense of place and historic context to the eastern end of Market Place that is otherwise lacking.

History:

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