34, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Shop. 5 related planning applications.
34, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- guardian-cobble-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 34, Market Place, WN1 1NR
- OS grid reference
- SD 582 057
- Coordinates
- 53.54647, -2.63184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 34 Market Place is a shop with offices above, built in 1905 by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton. It is designed in a 16th-century vernacular style and is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings and some timber framing, topped with a red tiled roof. The building has a narrow rectangular plan that runs at right angles to the street, featuring a long back extension.
The structure is three storeys tall and consists of one bay. The ground floor has an altered shop front. The first floor features an arcaded window with three elliptical-headed lights and a blocked colonnette surround. The second floor showcases slightly-jettied ornamental timber framing that closely resembles the adjacent buildings at Nos 26 to 32. This floor includes a 10-light oriel window with Art Nouveau leaded glazing, a jettied gable with a brattished jetty bressumer inscribed with "1905", and oversailing bargeboarded verges topped with a finial.
The building is part of a group with the adjacent Nos 26 to 32 on the left and Nos 36 and 38 on the right, all of which are part of the same architectural scheme. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
34, Market Place sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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