85 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. House.

85 Market Place

WRENN ID
fallen-paling-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1973
Type
House
Address
85 Market Place, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7AQ
OS grid reference
TF 819 089
Coordinates
52.64777, 0.68883
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

85 Market Place is a house built in the late 18th century that was later converted into a shop with accommodation above around 1900. The materials used include pebble-dashed and whitewashed brick, topped with a roof of black-glazed pantiles.

The building has a long rectangular plan facing west onto the Market Place, with adjoining outbuildings at the rear. It stands two storeys high with an attic beneath a steeply pitched roof that features a parapet. The roof includes one flat-topped dormer window fitted with a two-over-two pane horned sash, and there is an internal red brick chimney stack on the right gable end.

The ground floor is characterized by a curved plate-glass shopfront from around 1900, which has a deeply projecting canopy box and a tiled stallriser made of black brick-sized tiles. The first floor is illuminated by two recessed two-over-two pane horned sash windows.

Local climate

85 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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