No. 1, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. Bank, house.
No. 1, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- north-cellar-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- Telford MP: Shaun Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- Bank, house
- Address
- No. 1, Market Square, the Gorge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 672 034
- Coordinates
- 52.62804, -2.48489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1, Market Square is a late 18th-century building that has undergone later alterations. It is constructed of stucco and stands three storeys tall, featuring two sash windows. The first floor is adorned with a dentilled cornice. The ground storey showcases an attractive late 19th-century bank front, characterized by bands of rustication and windows with rectangular fanlights, all set within moulded surrounds and separated by a continuous cornice. The central doorway is framed by a moulded architrave and features a 10-fielded-panelled divided door. The building has restored wooden eaves and a hipped modern tile roof.
Local climate
No. 1, Market Square receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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