20, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. Corner building.
20, Market Place
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- Corner building
- OS grid reference
- TL 184 290
- Coordinates
- 51.9471, -0.27871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20 Market Place is a late 17th century corner building that stands three storeys high and is finished in plaster. It features a deep cornice with decorative modillions beneath a steeply pitched tiled roof, which is cross-gabled and half-hipped. The first floor of the building overhangs the ground floor, which has shop windows. On the upper floors, there are two windows on each side; some are sash windows set in broad frames with wide glazing bars, while others are two or four-light leaded casements with wooden mullions and transoms. This building is part of a group of listed buildings in Market Place.
Local climate
20, Market Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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