53 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1976. Shop.
53 Market Place
- WRENN ID
- dark-entrance-elder
- 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
- 53 Market Place, Wisbech
- OS grid reference
- TF 462 096
- Coordinates
- 52.66472, 0.1617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 Market Place is a shop that dates from the late 18th century and has been altered over time. It is constructed of local brown brick and rendered, topped with a modern red pantile roof. The building stands three storeys high and features two bays. At the top, there is a shallow parapet with stone copings. The second floor has two wide twelve-paned hung sash windows set in cambered arches. The first floor has larger window openings, which have modern replacements. The ground floor is occupied by a modern shop. This building is included for its group value with other nearby structures.
Local climate
53 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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