Gatepiers Rear of Number 8 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1985. Gatepiers.
Gatepiers Rear of Number 8 Market Place
- WRENN ID
- night-obsidian-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1985
- Type
- Gatepiers
- Address
- Gatepiers Rear of Number 8 Market Place, Scaldgate, Whittlesey
- OS grid reference
- TL 271 970
- Coordinates
- 52.55612, -0.12601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers located at the rear of Number 8 Market Place date from around 1700. They are made of dressed limestone and feature a cornice topped with ball finials. Some original coursed dressed stone can still be seen in the brick wall to the left.
Local climate
Gatepiers Rear of Number 8 Market Place sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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