2, 2a, 4a and 4, Old Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
2, 2a, 4a and 4, Old Market Place
- WRENN ID
- night-buttress-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 2, 2a, 4a and 4, Old Market Place, WA14 4PA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 767 880
- Coordinates
- 53.38861, -2.35065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These commercial premises, now restaurants and offices, were built in the 1890s for Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, likely by George Truefitt. The building is constructed of header bond brick with decorative timber framing and a clay tile roof. It comprises five bays with two storeys and an attic, and two bays on Post Office Street. The design is romantic in style yet retains a nearly symmetrical composition. Features include a stone plinth, stone bands, a decorative timber-framed eaves band, and a mansard roof with three chimneys. A central recess provides entrances to 2A and 4A, with a balcony above. Large shop fronts are present on either side, with two- and three-light mullion and transom windows above. These upper windows have decorative bargeboards, finials, timber-framed gables, and leaded lights (except for those on the ground floor). The facade curves gracefully into Post Office Street, and a weather vane on the roof bears the initials of the patron. The building is intended to complement other buildings by Cunliffe Brooks, including Lloyds Bank and Nos. 1 and 3 Market Street.
Local climate
2, 2a, 4a and 4, Old Market Place sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2021
- 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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