37 and 39, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1988. Emporium. 3 related planning applications.

37 and 39, Market Place

WRENN ID
muted-cobalt-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 November 1988
Type
Emporium
Address
37 and 39, Market Place, WF8 1AG
OS grid reference
SE 455 218
Coordinates
53.69119, -1.31119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 37 and 39 Market Place is an emporium, now a shop, built in 1894 for England's furnishing and ironmongers' store. It is constructed from beige terracotta made by the Leeds Fireclay Company and originally faced a cast-iron framed building, which has since been replaced by a late 20th-century structure. The building has a Welsh slate roof and stands three storeys tall, with a façade divided into four bays.

The third bay serves as the shop entrance, featuring a round-arched portal on the ground floor and a projecting canted bay on the upper floors. The ground floor is flanked by 20th-century plate-glass shop windows, while the first floor has basket-arched windows and the second floor features 2-light windows. Above the windows is a frieze divided into panels, with capitals that resemble pilasters, and the panels are inscribed with the words "ENGLAND," "COMPLETE," "HOUSE," and "FURNISHER," except for the area above the canted bay, which is decorated with scrolled foliage.

The building is topped with a rich cornice that has an egg-and-dart motif, and a panelled parapet with pierced panels, ball and urn finials, and a central dormer with a Dutch gable. The narrow left-hand bay includes an arched through-passage entrance, with transomed windows on each upper floor and a cornice below a cusped parapet.

Local climate

37 and 39, 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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