History

C18 house added behind later C17 range facing Market Square, the former Braemar Shop. This is part of one range with Grosvenor, Market Square. Grosvenor and Braemar have similar iron windows suggesting that they were altered together in the earlier C19. Both are marked on 1833 map as owned by William Davies, and on 1839 Tithe map Braemar was occupied by John Jones, tailor, with shop. The shop was the Post Office and chemist's shop of W.P. Marshall from at least 1874 into the early C20. In 1880 Marshall is listed as chemist and agent for the Provident Fire Office. A chemist, George Bayliss Castell, and a druggist, John Williams, are listed in the Market Place in the 1858-9 directory, possibly here. Old photographs of the shop front show different steps up and unpainted brickwork below. The detail of the c1900 shop window is similar to that on Compton House, Broad Street.

Exterior

House and former shop. Two parts, the main front to Kerry Street, and the former shop with gable end to Kerry Street and facade to Market Square, continuous with Grosvenor adjoining.
Kerry Street front has ground floor of brick and painted rendered upper floor, boxed eaves and slate roof. Red brick right end chimney on ridge above junction with Market Square range and rebuilt brick stack on rear left. Two storeys and attic with cellar. One small flat-roofed dormer with iron casement pair window, to right. On first floor, three small-paned iron casement-pairs set flush to wall, under eaves. Ground floor has Flemish bond brickwork on rubble stone high base, openings not aligned with windows above. Door to right of centre is flanked by two C19 canted bay windows with hipped slate roofs and 2-4-2-pane sash lights. Door is up five stone steps with iron rail on left side. Thin moulded architrave and flush-panelled six-panel door with top two panels glazed. A timber post left of left jamb may indicate a timber frame or a narrowing of doorway. The bays are on brick bases, the right one with two-light cellar light immediately under sill of centre sash. Ledged low basement door down stone steps just left of door. At far left is a framed ledged door with renewed cambered head and two stone steps.
The end gable of the Market Square range has recently had the square-framed timber framing exposed in upper floors, showing evidence that the Market Square front has been raised slightly. Flemish-bond red brick ground floor with horned 4-pane sash with blue brick sill, over rubble basement with steps down to ledged door to left of centre and fixed window to right with brick cambered head. Front range to Market Square of one bay, continuous with Grosvenor to right. Painted brick ground floor and rendered first floor with slate roof and timber small modillions to eaves cornice. One small gabled dormer with bargeboards and modern casement pair, first floor iron small-paned window on wall face (as on Kerry St facade) and ground floor big projecting shop front reached up flight of seven renewed steps. Late C19 shop front has plate glass tall 2-light full-length window each side of central half-glazed door (original double doors, now made into one), and with narrow light in each return. Fascia and cornice, painted brick base. Plain iron rail on left side of steps, and plain iron railing enclosing raised cobbled square to left of steps.
Rear has rendered upper floor and three tiny windows, two with iron casements, the middle one small-paned. Modern brick lean-to. Red brick single bay to left has cambered-headed window each floor with leaded lights and iron opening light.

Interior

Entrance passage to rear stairs. S ground floor room has six-panel door, two cross-axial beams and later C19 black veined marble fireplace on back wall. Right hand ground floor room has an axial beam. Winding oak staircase up to landing with square balusters and thin hand rail. Rough beams to first floor rooms. Plank doors. Attic has two timber-framed partitions, the S one with tie-beam and collar truss, the other plastered. Shop at N end has one chamfered beam. Cellar beneath house and shop with cobbled floor.

Reasons for Listing

Included for its special historic interest as a C17-C18 house with clear evidence of the phases of its construction, including timber-framing. Good detail associated with C19 remodelling and later use as a shop.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29486870

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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