2 and 2a, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1972. Shop. 7 related planning applications.
2 and 2a, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- narrow-lime-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1972
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 2 and 2a, Market Place, Grantham, NG31 6LQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 912 359
- Coordinates
- 52.91287, -0.64424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 2 and 2A Market Place is a late 17th-century building that houses two shops within one structure. It is constructed of brick and features a hipped slate roof, with rusticated stone quotas. Each shop front has two windows with glazing bars, and there are three dormers on the east side and one on the north side, all with segmental tops. The modern shop front and floor have been added. Inside, the building contains bolection moulded fireplaces in the ground floor and first-floor rooms.
Local climate
2 and 2a, 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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