The Butter Market is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Market hall. 1 related planning application.
The Butter Market
- WRENN ID
- solemn-flagstone-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Market hall
- Address
- The Butter Market, Cheshire Street, Market Drayton, TF9 1PF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 675 341
- Coordinates
- 52.90423, -2.48449
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Butter Market is a small market hall located on Cheshire Street in Market Drayton, built in 1824. It is constructed from grey sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof. The building has three rows of four bays, with equally spaced side openings and narrow end openings flanking a wider central opening. The open sides are supported by unfluted Doric columns that stand on a raised stone platform. The gable ends are triangular-pedimented, with the north-west gable displaying the date of construction above carved corbels. At the center of the roof, there is a square wooden bellcote topped with a pyramidal slate cap, which is missing its finial, and houses a pair of copper fire bells. Inside, the market hall features a four-bay roof supported by king-post trusses. Notably, five of the stone columns inside are replacements that were taken from an old house and reused in the Butter Market around 1972.
Local climate
The Butter Market receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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