1 and 2, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. Commercial.

1 and 2, Market Place

WRENN ID
errant-wattle-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1950
Type
Commercial
Address
1 and 2, Market Place, Morpeth
OS grid reference
NZ 198 859
Coordinates
55.16781, -1.69055
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 1 and 2 Market Place is a shop built in the early 18th century. It is constructed of brick in English Garden Wall Bond, and the roof is not visible. The building has three storeys and three bays. The ground floor features a 20th-century shop front, while the upper floors have 12-pane sash windows set in segment-headed surrounds, complete with brick keystones on the first floor. There is a band at the second floor, and the building is topped with a brick dentil cornice and a parapet that includes flat brick pilasters.

Local climate

1 and 2, Market Place receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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