29 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. House.
29 Market Place
- WRENN ID
- waiting-joist-heron
- 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
- 29 Market Place, Swaffham, PE37 7LA
- OS grid reference
- TF 818 090
- Coordinates
- 52.6487, 0.68699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
29 Market Place is a former house built in the early 17th century. It was documented as a public house in 1869, later remodeled as a café in the mid-20th century, and converted into a fast-food restaurant in the late 20th century.
The building is constructed of flint with brick dressings. The façade is rendered and color-washed, topped with a pantile roof and a brick stack.
The principal elevation facing Market Place features two storeys and two wide bays. On the ground floor, the left bay includes a single-light window set in a 19th-century surround, while the right bay and the right-hand return to Ash Close both have late 20th-century shopfronts with plate glass display windows and a canted doorway that has a half-glazed door at the corner. On the first floor, the Market Place elevation has late 20th-century two-light casements with small-pane glazing in each bay. The right-hand return, which displays brick diapering in a diamond pattern, features an off-centre right two-over-two horned sash window in a brick surround. Above this is an internal gable-end stack.
Local climate
29 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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