NHER 30642 (Building record) - No 16 Market Place

December 1950. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Two shops with accommodation, now one shop. Early 17th-century front range, probably rebuilt after fire of 1616, early 16th-century rear wing. Timber-framed with colourwashed brick skin to front. Roof of corrugated black glazed tiles. Two storey and dormer attic. Glazed panel door to left and double-leaf early 19th-century door to right...Gabled roof with one gabled dormer. Two-storey timber-framed rear wing is rendered and tarred. Gabled roof. Virtually inaccesible from outside.
INTERIOR. Boxed bridging beam to ground floor front. In west room is a knuckle brace. Blocked door formerly opened to rear above attic steps. Rear wing with two Regency timber wall arches and a 16th-century crenellated spine beam with double roll mouldings. Chamfered bridging beams to first floor…"
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NLA), 6 June 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 March 2022.

February 1995. Field Observation.
Interior ground floor briefly seen by E. Rose (NLA).
The knuckle braces mentioned above seem to refer to a pair of carved brackets supporting the bridging beam in the front room. The rear room was confirmed as having a castellated and rollmoulded early 16th century beam. There is also a cellar apparently below the front but entered from the rear room; its interior was not seen.
E. Rose (NLA), 2 March 1995.