Market House is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1952. Town hall. 1 related planning application.
Market House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-dormer-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1952
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Market House, High Street, Garstang, PR3 1ZA
- OS grid reference
- SD 492 451
- Coordinates
- 53.90044, -2.77412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a market house, dating from 1755 to 1764. It is now used as shops and a club. Constructed of brick with sandstone dressings, it has a hipped slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. It features chamfered quoins, a decorative band, and a cornice. The ground floor has three round arches connected by an impost band. The outer arches are smaller and now contain windows, each with a keystone. The central arch is wider, serves as an entrance, and has a keystone and alternately projecting voussoirs. The first-floor windows are sash windows with glazing bars, linked by a sill band. The outer windows have stone surrounds, pulvinated friezes, and cornices. The central window has an architrave, pulvinated frieze, and a pediment. A plaque set within an apron commemorates the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. Above the central bay, set back behind the cornice, is a timber cupola containing a clock. Each return wall has one bay treated similarly to the outer bays of the front facade.
Local climate
Market House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 2 transactions since 2011
- 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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