house

Terraced two-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, c.1900, probably incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1880-1900, on site. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta louvered pots, and concealed rainwater goods having cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls with rendered quoins to ends, moulded rendered cornice to top floor, blank shield panel, stringcourse supporting fascia having moulded cornice, and parapet having lined moulded cornice. Square-headed window openings with moulded rendered sills forming sill courses, moulded rendered surrounds, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with diamond-pointed panelled pilasters, fixed-pane (two-light) display window on panelled riser having iron supporting pillar behind, glazed timber panelled door having overlight, and fascia having moulded cornice. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

An elegantly composed house of modest to middle size possibly representing the reconstruction of an earlier predecessor illustrated in late nineteenth-century archival photography with attributes including the massing rising above the flanking ranges with the vertical thrust emphasised by a parapet, the uniform proportions on each floor, the rendered accents producing a refined Classical theme, and so on, all enhancing the streetscape presence of the site in Market Square. Although an original shopfront has been lost, elsewhere the house has been well maintained to present an early aspect with most of the original fabric surviving in place, thus upholding the positive contribution made to the character of the immediate setting.