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Corner-sited attached three-bay two-storey former market house, built c.1830, with gable front facing east to side street, later two-storey extension to rear. Restored c.2000 and now in use as tourist centre and gift shop. Pitched slate roof with stone ridge tiles, sandstone barge coping and corbelled kneelers, cut-stone chimneystacks to gable and party-wall, rooflight to north, replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Quarry-faced coursed sandstone walls, with dressed stone details, two tie-bars with S-shaped restraining straps to front elevation, round clock face below apex of east gable in raised dressed surround. Square-headed window openings to first floor and pair of windows to upper level of gable with finely punched stone surrounds and six-over-six timber sash windows. Wide elliptical arched opening to centre bay with dressed voussoirs and multiple paned timber windows c.2000. Square-headed openings to outer bays with flush dressed lintel and surround, with door to west and six-over-six timber sash window to east. Similar elliptical-arched opening to gable with dressed voussoirs and multiple paned timber windows and central door of c.2000. Interior extensively renovated c.2000.
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