7 and 9, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Commercial, residential. 4 related planning applications.
7 and 9, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- fossil-stronghold-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Commercial, residential
- Address
- 7 and 9, Market Place, City of Leicester, LE1 5GG
- OS grid reference
- SK 586 044
- Coordinates
- 52.6342, -1.13427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 7 and 9 Market Place is a building that likely dates back to the early 17th century. It has been refaced and stuccoed, featuring a timber-frame structure. The building stands three storeys high with an attic. The east front has two gables with stone coping, and the first and second floors each have three sash windows without glazing bars. There are two smaller attic windows in the gables that do have glazing bars.
The building boasts a fine late 19th-century shop front, which includes elliptical arch windows adorned with stuccoed relief foliage surrounds, a central elliptical arch doorway, and pilasters with console brackets that support a cornice. The right-hand return features the same shop front style, with irregular window arrangements above and one and a half gables.
Adjoining to the west is a late 19th-century section built of red bricks, which is four storeys tall and has a single Dutch gable. The first and second floors have wooden bay windows set in recesses with a canopy above, while the third floor features a three-light window with a segmental pediment over the central light. The ground floor of this section also has a contemporary shop front with a heavy cornice and railings above.
Nos 1 to 9 (odd) and No 10 Hotel Street form a group.
Local climate
7 and 9, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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