2, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. A C17 Commercial. 2 related planning applications.
2, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- rooted-cellar-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 2, Market Place, AL3 5DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 071
- Coordinates
- 51.7512, -0.34031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2 Market Place is a 17th century building with a later 18th century front, featuring a plastered exterior. It has a high-pitched, tiled roof and stands three storeys tall with two windows. The windows on the first and second floors are sash windows with glazing bars set in slightly projecting, moulded frames. The ground floor has a later 19th century shop front. The north side of the building is weatherboarded. This property is part of a group that includes Nos 1, 3, 2, and 4, along with No 18 High Street.
Local climate
2, 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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