58 and 59 Market Place

The Grade II* listedStructure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection. 58 and 59 Market Place in Richmond, North Yorkshire, is a former large residential building constructed in the mid-18th century, now converted into retail premises.^[1] From the 1970s the building was occupied by Woolworths;^[2] after the chain closed in 2009, it was used by Heron Foods.^[3]

The building is in painted roughcast, with rusticated quoinsAny external angle or corner of a structure., a moulded corniceHorizontal moulding crowning a building or part of a building, such as over a door or window, or at the junction of an interior wall and ceiling. with modillions, a parapet, and a roof partly of slate and partly of pantile. It has three storeys and eight bays. Part of the ground floor is recessed, and to the left is a doorway with engaged Tuscan columns, a three-light fanlight, a triglyph friezeHorizontal central band of an entablature, known as a pulvinated frieze if it has a convex profile., and a moulded pedimentLow-pitched gable above a portico or façade.. Also on this floor are two shop windows, and in the right bay is a segmental-headed carriage archway with shaped jambs and a rusticated keystone. The upper floors contain sash windows with rusticated keystones.^[1][4]