23, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1968. House. 8 related planning applications.
23, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- high-keep-mist
- 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
- 23, Market Place, WF8 1DS
- OS grid reference
- SE 456 218
- Coordinates
- 53.69146, -1.31068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 23 Market Place is a house that has been converted into a shop and offices. It dates from the early to mid-18th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of painted brick with stone dressings and features a slate roof.
It stands three storeys high and has three bays, with the bay on the right being significantly wider than the others. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front, which is flanked by rusticated stone pilaster strips at the corners and two similar strips between the bays on the first and second floors.
On the first floor, there are three 20th-century replacement flush-frame 18-pane sash windows set in the original openings. The second floor also features similar sash windows with glazing bars. All the sash windows are positioned beneath segmental brick arches that have raised double keystones and are supported by moulded stone sills. The building has a moulded gutter and a steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves, topped by an end brick stack on the right.
Local climate
23, 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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