16 and 18, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House, shop. 1 related planning application.

16 and 18, Market Square

WRENN ID
waning-barrel-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
House, shop
Address
16 and 18, Market Square, Bishop's Castle, SY9 5BN
OS grid reference
SO 323 889
Coordinates
52.49463, -2.99787
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 16 and 18 Market Square are a pair of houses, now functioning as two shops with flats, dating from around 1800. They are constructed of red brick in English bond, featuring a 20th-century interlocking concrete-tile roof on the left side and a corrugated asbestos roof on the right. The buildings rise three storeys and have a plinth, a dentil brick eaves cornice, a central ridge stack, and a semi-integral end stack on the right.

The first and second floors each have four bays, with segmental-headed glazing bar sashes. The two right-hand bays have been replaced with 20th-century casements. On the ground floor, there is an off-centre glazing bar sash window to the right, alongside a complete early 19th-century shop front to the right. This shop front features a small-paned flat-bow shop window on the right and a six-panelled door to the left, with the centre panels glazed. It has flush-panelled reveals, a pilastered surround, a frieze, and a moulded cornice. The left side has a mid- to late-19th-century shop front with two plate glass windows flanking a central half-glazed door, also with a pilastered surround, fascia, and a bracketed hood. There is a half-glazed 20th-century door off-centre to the left, flanked by unfluted half columns and a flat hood, as well as a central boarded passageway door with a segmental head. The buildings are included in the listing due to the complete early 19th-century shop front and for their group value.

Local climate

16 and 18, Market Square receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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