30 and 32 Market Hill (EHER 38430)

Nos 30 and 32 Market Hill are a pair of 17th century timber framed and rendered houses, now a single dwelling. The roof is covered with plain tile. The building is two storeys and has a two-storey-with-attic range at the rear. It has 19th century alterations and may have origins in the 15th century. The south-west part of No.30 is a two-bay parlour to a cross-wing house, possibly from the 15th century and rebuilt in the late 16th century.

September 1971. Grade II listed. Nos 30 and 32 Market Hill are a pair of 17th century timber framed and rendered houses, now a single dwelling. The roof is covered with plain tile. The building is two storeys and has a two-storey-with-attic range at the rear. It has 19th century alterations and may have origins in the 15th century. No.30 has a plain tile roof, hipped at the south-east end. The ashlar-rendered first floor is jettied over the ground floor of painted brick. The front of No.32 is of rendered brick with a canted bay window with flat roof and small panes on the ground floor. A flight of steps approaches the recessed door, which has a semicircular-arched opening with keystone; semicircular fanlight with two radiating glazing bars and a door of six moulded panels. To the rear of No.32 is a timber framed two-storey-with-attic building with a plain tiled gambrel roof, which is parallel to the frontage. Internally, No.32 has a front room with early 19th century panelling below a dado. There is a straight-flight staircase with a handrail on panelled pilasters with a lily motif at their head and foot. There is an early 19th century corner cupboard with doors, serpentine shelves and an elliptical-arched head. Also retained is a panelled and framed 17th century door and small 17th century panelled door. The south-west part of No.30 is a two-bay parlour to a cross-wing house, with a side-purlin roof and straight wind bracing. This may represent an earlier cross-wing, possibly 15th century, rebuilt in the late 16th century to incorporate square-section floor joists and a moulded-mullion window on the first floor of the south-west flank. The hall part of this structure has similar joists and a large chamfered spine beam with side-purlin roof of A-frame type with heavy-section collars. The tie beam, on the upper floor is cambered and hollow-chamfered towards the cross-wing - probably reused from an earlier hall. <1> See photos <2>. The building abuts 'The Old Custom House' (EHER 38432) to the north and No.28 Market Hill to the south.