Betting Office — Market Cross

Attached two-bay two-storey house, built c. 1720, altered c. 1900, and possibly containing earlier fabric, having two-storey return to the rear (west) on irregular-plan. Rubble stone exterior wall of two-storey building attached to the south-west. Ground floor formerly in use as shop, now in use as a betting office. . Pitched natural slate roof with projecting smooth rendered eaves course, blue-black clay ridge tiles, yellow brick chimneystack to the north, smooth rendered chimneystack to the south end, and with surviving sections of cast-iron downpipes. Rubble stone chimneystack or wall rising over rear pitch of roof to the south-west. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to front elevation (east) over projecting smooth rendered plinth course; roughcast rendered walls to rear (west) and return. Smooth rendered fascia over openings to the front elevation (east) having stucco architraved surround with bevelled\shouldered corners, and painted signage. Square-headed window openings to the front elevation at first floor level having smooth rendered surrounds, painted sills, and with six-over-six timber sliding sash window to the north and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash window to the south. Square-headed window opening to the front elevation at ground floor level having replacement fixed-pane eight-over-eight pane timber windows. Square-headed window openings to the return having paired six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level and replacement window an glazed timber door at ground floor level. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation having replacement timber panelled door with plain overlight. Road-fronted to the centre of Ramelton, adjacent to the north of Market Cross. Yard to the rear (west).