1, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1968. A Late C18 House. 6 related planning applications.
1, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- spare-remnant-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Market Place, WF8 1AG
- OS grid reference
- SE 456 219
- Coordinates
- 53.69185, -1.30988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century house, later used as a shop and offices. It is located on the south-east side of Pontefract Market Place. The building is constructed of painted brick with gauged brick and stone dressings, and has a concrete tile roof. It stands three stories high and features three bays. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front. A wide, slightly damaged stone sill band runs across the first floor, above which are three tall plate-glass sash windows. Above them are three smaller sash windows of a similar style, each with projecting sills and flat gauged brick arches. A moulded stone cornice is topped with a later brick blocking course. The building has no chimney stacks. Early 20th-century plasterwork is visible on the left gable wall.
Local climate
1, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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