20a, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1974. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
20a, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- north-storey-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 20a, Market Place, Sleaford
- OS grid reference
- TF 067 458
- Coordinates
- 52.9992, -0.41008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
20A Market Place is a mid-19th century building that stands three storeys tall, constructed from red brick with a Welsh slate roof. It features a diagonal-set brick eaves cornice. The top floor has two windows with flat stone heads that include keystones, while the first floor has stone surrounds with a cornice supported by carved consoles. Notably, there are no glazing bars on the windows. The ground floor has a modern shop front. This building is included mainly for its contribution to an important visual group, which also includes Nos 20A, 21, and 22.
Local climate
20a, Market Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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