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Ground floor plan, drawing HHS-101 rev B, 1:200 at A3, north up, with a 10 m scale bar. A ring of rooms round the open courtyard. Along the north: the Albion Lounge, a WC, the Crown & Anchor, the Fairbairn & Vine wine cellar stair, the kitchen with Trattoria Lucia's dining for 12 in front, Hartley's Bakery, the back kitchen, the main stair and a store, with the hall and front door in the middle of the outside wall. Down the east: Northgate pantry, the four-car garage with the coach house cart doors and the drive-through bay, and Ashworth plant room. Along the south: the cinema for 12 with its foyer, Blockbuster with its hidden stair, the narrow Midland Bank and range stairs, the gym with changing, the stair and lift, and the Texas Homecare workshop. Up the west: Our Price studio, Lowther Gallery, Abbott & Sons barber, the baths stair and the Marlowe & Pike library. A corridor runs round the outer wall. In the courtyard: the pavement with cafe tables, the granite sett road, the square with its water bowl, and the sunken lightwell 4.5 m down.

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Ground floor

Nineteen shops round Market Row, a 34 × 28 m courtyard open to the sky.

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Ground floor

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Plans rev B, 1:200 at A3, November 2026. The model is rev Q and a step ahead in places: where the two disagree on a room's exact shape, the model is the later word.

Every room on this floor has a working door onto the street, even the plant room and the pantry. An inside corridor runs round the outer wall, 3 m wide on the north where it doubles as the hall and 2 m elsewhere. On the east it passes through the garage, with a door at each end.

The front door is in the middle of the north side. The only other way in from outside is through the coach house's cart doors and the Kingsway Motors drive-through bay.

The back kitchen, main stair and a store fill the north-east corner. The back stair and lift sit behind the gym and reach the basement. There are two WCs, behind the bar and by the back stair.

In the courtyard: 3 m pavements, 5 m on the north for cafe tables; a 4 m road for the car, a U from the garage; the central square with the water bowl, birches and benches; and the sunken lightwell to the north-west, the sunniest corner.

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Ground floor plan, drawing HHS-101 rev B, 1:200 at A3, north up, with a 10 m scale bar. A ring of rooms round the open courtyard. Along the north: the Albion Lounge, a WC, the Crown & Anchor, the Fairbairn & Vine wine cellar stair, the kitchen with Trattoria Lucia's dining for 12 in front, Hartley's Bakery, the back kitchen, the main stair and a store, with the hall and front door in the middle of the outside wall. Down the east: Northgate pantry, the four-car garage with the coach house cart doors and the drive-through bay, and Ashworth plant room. Along the south: the cinema for 12 with its foyer, Blockbuster with its hidden stair, the narrow Midland Bank and range stairs, the gym with changing, the stair and lift, and the Texas Homecare workshop. Up the west: Our Price studio, Lowther Gallery, Abbott & Sons barber, the baths stair and the Marlowe & Pike library. A corridor runs round the outer wall. In the courtyard: the pavement with cafe tables, the granite sett road, the square with its water bowl, and the sunken lightwell 4.5 m down.
01 · Ground floor plan
Market Row on a high summer afternoon, looking north-west across the square. A paved square with a low round stone water bowl, three silver birches and long backless timber benches, set in grey granite setts laid in fan arcs. Behind, the north and west sides: a ground floor of limestone pilasters and dark bronze shopfronts with lit fascias, Lowther Gallery, Abbott & Sons Barbers, Market Row Baths, Marlowe & Pike Booksellers, The Albion Lounge, The Crown & Anchor, Fairbairn & Vine Wine Merchants, Trattoria Lucia under a red and white striped awning with tables out, and Hartley's Bakery. Above, a pale limestone grid of tall bronze windows, a band of clerestory glass and a thin floating roof plate, with slate behind.
02 · Market Row on a high summer afternoon
Aerial view from the south-west in early autumn sun, with the North Yorkshire coast, cliffs and sea beyond. A closed square ring of two-storey houses with slate roofs that step between sections, sandstone and white render walls, and charred timber corner blocks under pale zinc. In the middle, hidden from every side, the courtyard: a paved square with trees, a water bowl, the sunken lightwell and the trattoria's red striped awning. Two arched cart doors in the stone coach house on the east side open onto a gravel drive. Dry stone walls, a meadow and a few trees round it.
03 · Aerial view from the south-west in early autumn sun