The Fish Market is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1980. Market building. 1 related planning application.
The Fish Market
- WRENN ID
- graven-niche-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1980
- Type
- Market building
- Address
- The Fish Market, Market Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 539 295
- Coordinates
- 53.76013, -2.69978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fish Market is a covered open-air market building located on Market Street in Preston. It was built in the early 20th century and is constructed from cast iron and steel, topped with a slate roof that features glazed panels. The building has a square plan and is covered by a three-span hipped roof that runs along a north-south axis. It is open-sided, functioning as a floating canopy supported by four columns at each end and one in the center of each side. The columns are square with panelled sides, adorned with attached anthemions and rosettes, and topped with heavily foliated caps. These columns support very deep trellis girders with ornamental bosses and long slender arch-braces that extend to deep oversailing eaves. The roof has long glazed panels on three slopes, and all ridges are accented with wrought-iron cresting. The Fish Market forms a group with the Covered Market.
Local climate
The Fish Market sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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