5 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1976. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
5 Market Place
- WRENN ID
- moated-facade-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1976
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 5 Market Place, Wisbech, PE13 1DT
- OS grid reference
- TF 462 096
- Coordinates
- 52.66455, 0.16138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
5 Market Place is a shop dating from the 18th century, with a 17th-century basement and a forecourt that may have been added in the 19th century. It is constructed of local brown brick and has four storeys with two bays. The building features a shallow parapet with stone copings. On the second and third floors, there are two recessed, sixteen-paned hung sash windows set in cambered gauged brick arches, along with two replacement casement windows at the first floor. The shop has good late 19th-century windows and retains an original glazed door. A brass cap on the plinth is engraved with 'PIANOES AND REPAIRS' and 'TUNING AND ORGANS'. Inside, above the shop, there is a notable Adam style chimney piece and a 17th-century ovolo moulded ceiling beam in the basement, which also includes a brick stair leading to the street. Other interior details are largely from the 19th century and include a linking passage to a converted 18th-century brick storehouse of two storeys at the rear.
Local climate
5 Market Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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