8, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
8, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- woven-cellar-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 8, Market Place, City of Leicester, LE1 5GF
- OS grid reference
- SK 586 044
- Coordinates
- 52.63435, -1.13437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 8, Market Place is an early 19th-century building constructed of grey brick with painted stone dressings and a slate roof. It features a heavy moulded cornice at the eaves and a wide band at the second floor level. The building stands three storeys high and has three sash windows with glazing bars. The first-floor windows are round-arched with continuous moulded imposts, while the second floor has flat lintels. The ground floor has a large modern shopfront with an illuminated fascia. This building is listed as Grade II for its group value, as it forms a group with Nos 4, 6, and 8.
Local climate
8, Market Place receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 4 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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