The Old House Café — Market Cross

Corner-sited semi-detached four-bay two-storey house with attic level, built c. 1730 and reputedly containing fabric of Plantation-era house to site built c. 1620, having altered ground floor with modern shopfront, and with corbelled corner to the north-west. Possibly originally two attached two-bay two-storey houses, later amalgamated into single property. Formerly in use as shops, currently in use as a café. Two-bay two-storey over raised basement flat-roofed extension and single-bay single-storey over basement level flat-roofed extension to the rear (west). Pitched natural slate roof with modern skylights to west pitch, blue-black clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack to the north gable end, projecting rendered eaves course, and with some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, partly smooth rendered to modern shopfront to the west elevation. Shallow projecting chamfered rendered plinth to the rear (west) of main body of building. Modern timber fascia and painted mural to shopfront. Square-headed window openings, some enlarged, having smooth rendered reveals, replacement sills, and with replacement windows. Square-headed openings to shopfront with modern fittings. Square-headed doorway to shopfront with modern fittings. Square-headed doorway at ground floor level to the north elevation of rear return having glazed battened timber door; doorway reached by flight of rendered steps (over raised basement) flanked to the west by roughcast rendered parapet wall. Road-fronted to the centre of Ramelton adjacent to the south of former market square\cross, and to the centre of the historic town. Yard to the rear (west).