26, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1976. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.

26, Market Place

WRENN ID
vacant-loggia-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Melton
Constituency
Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 October 1976
Type
Commercial
Address
26, Market Place, LE13 1XD
OS grid reference
SK 752 191
Coordinates
52.76486, -0.88674
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 26 Market Place is a building from the late 17th century with a facade that is stuccoed and features quoins along with a heavy, wide moulded eaves cornice. It has a steeply pitched slate roof and stands 2 and a half storeys tall, with two dormers that each have a segmental arched roof. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and there are three windows on the first floor, which have stone architraves, a central opening light, and margin lights. The ground floor has a large modern shop front that extends over the first floor. The facade of this building is set forward from that of Number 6. Numbers 26 and 27 together form a group.

Local climate

26, Market Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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