8, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1971. Bank. 8 related planning applications.
8, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- distant-gutter-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stafford MP: Leigh Ingham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1971
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- 8, Market Square, ST16 2JP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 922 232
- Coordinates
- 52.80695, -2.11712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Market Square is a bank building dating from around 1810, with an addition from the 1890s. It features a combination of ashlar and brick with ashlar dressings, and has tiled roofs with brick end stacks. The building is designed in a Georgian style and has a double-depth plan.
The exterior consists of three storeys with a three-window range. There is a cornice over the ground floor, a second-floor sill band, and wide eaves. The ground floor has polished granite facing from the 1890s, with end piers that have brackets, and a left-end entrance featuring paired panelled doors. The windows are divided by Ionic pilasters, and this treatment continues to the addition. The first floor has large windows with 16-pane horned sashes, while the second floor features windows with 4/8-pane sashes.
The 1890s addition is in the Flemish Renaissance style, showcasing a curved corner entrance bay flanked by three-window gabled ranges. It has a first-floor cornice, a top cornice, and Dutch gables with flanking finials. The ground floor mirrors the earlier design. The first floor includes brick piers with festoon capitals that flank three-light transomed windows, which are adorned with cornices and elliptical tympana featuring banded voussoirs and rich ashlar relief panels, some of which display masks and scroll work. The second floor has similar three-light windows with leaded upper lights and top friezes, but the corner features a smaller three-light window with leaded glazing. Above the cornice is a rich ashlar relief panel with a mask and flanking beasts, along with a swept cornice topped by a heraldic lion finial. The gables include lunettes with banded voussoirs and leaded glazing, and pilasters supporting segmental pediments with rich relief work and embellished triangular panels.
Local climate
8, Market Square receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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