Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1958. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
Market Place
- WRENN ID
- winter-grate-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1958
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Market Place, 2, Church Street, Malpas, SY14 8NU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 486 472
- Coordinates
- 53.01967, -2.76627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Market Place, formerly known as The Old Market Place, is a building that consists of two shops with living accommodation, which has been converted into a restaurant. It dates from the late 17th century and early 18th century and is constructed of brick with grey slate roofs. The building stands three storeys high, featuring five windows on the second storey and four on the third storey. The lower storey has been altered and is recessed behind a colonnade of eight Tuscan pillars made of red sandstone. The second and third storeys are flush, topped with a coped gable at each end of the front.
On the ground floor, there are two replaced doors, two 12-pane flush sash windows of late Georgian style, and a canted bay window that includes an 8-pane replaced central sash and 8-pane replaced fixed lights on each side. The first floor features 19th-century replaced casements, with one central window of six panes flanked by two windows of nine panes on each side. The second floor has two casements under each gable, with the left gable having two panes and the right gable having four panes. The building also has cyma kneelers and a rectangular chimney with six flues on the ridge of each cross-gable roof.
Inside, the lower storey has undergone significant alterations in its layout, with doors and other features repositioned; it includes one inglenook bressumer. The upper storeys retain much of their original character, featuring brick-on-edge nogged oak small framing, several two and four-panel oak doors dating from around 1700, and two mid-19th-century six-panel softwood doors. The staircase has been altered as well.
Local climate
Market Place receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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