20 Market Hill (EHER 38427)

An early 19th (possibly earlier) century timber framed and plastered house, with a rendered brick frontage. The building comprises a two-storey front range with an attic and a cellar, and a three-storey rendered rear range. There are 19th and 20th century rear extensions. All the roofs are tiled.

September 1971. Grade II listed. An early 19th (possibly earlier) century timber framed and plastered house, with a rendered brick frontage. The building comprises a two-storey front range with an attic and a cellar, and a three-storey rendered rear range. There is also a single-storeyed rendered brick extension with a lean-to slate roof with a further 19th century timber framed and rendered extension beyond, and a 20th century flat-roofed car port on the north-west flank. The front range has a gabled plain tile roof, and the parallel rear range has a hipped plain tile roof and a glazed belvedere. On the ground floor of the main range is a central doorcase with thin Tuscan pilasters, tall attic panels and a segmental, bowed, dentilled and reeded cornice. The door is deeply recessed and approached by a flight of four steps. Either side are slightly bowed 16-pane windows with curved glass and a dentilled cornice. Internally is a central entrance hall with a segmental arch on pilasters, and an open-well staircase with continuous curved soffit, stick balusters and column newels. The north-west room of the front range has cupboards with raised-and-fielded doors, either side of the rear window. The windows have internal folding shutters in their flanks, and the belvedere has a fitted bench with shaped end. <1> See photos <2>. The building abuts Evelyn House (EHER 38426) to the south-east.