1, Sheep Market is a Grade II* listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. House. 4 related planning applications.
1, Sheep Market
- WRENN ID
- crooked-vault-plum
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Sheep Market, PE11 1BH
- OS grid reference
- TF 246 227
- Coordinates
- 52.78757, -0.15315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This small building, likely dating back to around 1230, is primarily brick and stone with an almost entirely 19th-century exterior appearance, notable for its rounded shape. It has a hipped slate roof. The interior consists of a single vaulted room on the ground floor, featuring eight concentric arches supported by chamfered wood beams with run-out stops. A spiral stone staircase is built into the wall, leading to an upper room of similar proportions but without vaulting. The windows in both rooms are of 19th-century date. The building formerly served as a house for a blacksmith. It was originally part of the Priory and is believed to have been used as a lock-up for the monks. The building is informally known as the 'Prior's Oven,' a name referring to its shape and not its former function. It forms a group with numbers 15 to 17 Hall Place, which are buildings of local interest.
Local climate
1, Sheep Market sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2001
- 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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