A LANDMARK timber-framed town centre building thought to date back to the 1600s has gone on the market.

The historic No 23-24 property in Ross-on-Wye’s Brookend Street opposite Aldi has been an antique shop for the past 40 years.

But now the Grade II-listed three-storey building has been put up for sale as a retail outlet for a guide price of £315,000.

Most of the property is traditionally built and includes timbered walls and ceilings.

The ground floor currently has three retail showroom areas and a store room with access to a rear yard.

The first floor includes retail space, an office, kitchen and staff shower room, while the second floor includes a further retail area with a raked ceiling.

Historically, Brookend Street, which sits at the bottom of Broad Street, has been a hive of industry.

As recently as the mid-1800s, it was listed as having several bakers, a basket maker, several makers of boots and shoes, a butchers, cabinet makers, carpenters and joiners, coach builders, confectioners and a coopers (probably related to the Barrel Inn).

It also had a dairy man, a dressmaker, a miller, a gas fitter, several grocers and tea dealers, a haberdashers, a haulier, a herring curer, two inns (The Barrel and Green Dragon), an iron and brass founders/ironmongers, locksmiths and bellhangers, a marine store dealer, a provision dealer, a salt dealer and general shopkeepers and a solicitors.

The sale of the freehold is being handled by Jackson Preeece (www.jdpsurveyors.co.uk).