34 and 34A Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. Former house with shop. 3 related planning applications.
34 and 34A Market Place
- WRENN ID
- lunar-brass-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1973
- Type
- Former house with shop
- Address
- 34 and 34A Market Place, Swaffham, PE37 7QH
- OS grid reference
- TF 819 089
- Coordinates
- 52.64763, 0.68743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former house with a shop, dating to the second half of the 18th century. In the 1980s, the ground floor was divided into two retail units with living accommodation above.
The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a brick stack and a roof covered in black-glazed pantiles. It is three storeys high and five bays wide. The ground floor now features two retail shopfronts from the 1980s, with plate glass doors and windows. The first floor has five two-over-two sash windows, each with a rendered and painted gauged skewback arch. The second floor has five similar sash windows, but of a shallower design. A dentilled eaves cornice runs along the top of the building. The roof is gabled and incorporates a rear ridge stack, along with internal gable-end stacks to the north and south, the latter rebuilt in the 20th century.
Local climate
34 and 34A 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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 — 3 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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