53 and 55, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. A Late C19 Commercial.

53 and 55, Market Place

WRENN ID
odd-jade-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leicester
Constituency
Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
Commercial
Address
53 and 55, Market Place, City of Leicester, LE1 5EL
OS grid reference
SK 588 044
Coordinates
52.63475, -1.13245
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 53 and 55 on Market Place are late 19th-century buildings made of red brick with painted stone dressings and a slate roof. They rise four storeys with an attic and feature four rectangular windows, each set in a moulded stone architrave containing casements. The second-floor windows have a continuous narrow balcony supported by large brackets. There are moulded string courses, and the smaller attic windows are topped with small gables that have stone coping and ball-finials. At the time of the survey in 1973, a large shop was being fitted. These buildings are included for their group value with other listed buildings on the east side of Market Place.

Local climate

53 and 55, 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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