No. 39, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. A C17 Shop.

No. 39, Market Place

WRENN ID
little-truss-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wigan
Constituency
Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1966
Type
Shop
Period
C17
OS grid reference
SD 562 102
Coordinates
53.58666, -2.66218
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 39 Market Place is a 17th-century shop, likely built with plaster over stone and featuring a felted stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and two bays, with a band running above the ground floor. The ground floor contains small shop windows and a central entrance, while the first floor has windows with gablets and 20th-century casements. The gable end and stacks are made of brick. Inside, there are chamfered beams. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

No. 39, Market Place sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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