8, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1975. House, public house. 3 related planning applications.

8, Market Place

WRENN ID
hidden-brass-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1975
Type
House, public house
Address
8, Market Place, WF8 1AX
OS grid reference
SE 456 219
Coordinates
53.69197, -1.31041
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 8 Market Place is a house that has been converted into a public house, likely built in the late 18th century with some later alterations. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with some areas painted, and features painted stucco dressings and a slate roof. The building has three storeys and four bays, with a central entrance.

The ground floor is recessed and painted, featuring a central semi-circular-headed doorcase with a bolection-moulded architrave, a six-panel door, and a leaded fanlight. On either side of the entrance, there are bow windows set on brick plinths, each with three 18-pane sash windows, brick sills, and wooden cornices. In front of the doorcase, two 20th-century wooden columns support a modern fascia, with an original stone cornice below the centre point and a moulded sill band above the first-floor windows.

The first floor has rusticated stucco quoins and features four tall sash windows with glazing bars, each set in elaborate pedimented surrounds with eared and shouldered architraves, raised quoined jambs, corniced keystones, and plain friezes. The second floor has a moulded sill band and four unequally-hung nine-pane sashes in similar surrounds, but with plain architraves and no pediments. There is an eaves band and a stone-coped gable on the left side, along with 19th-century brick end stacks.

Local climate

8, Market Place receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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