19, 19a and 19b Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. A C18 Former house. 1 related planning application.
19, 19a and 19b Market Place
- WRENN ID
- fading-rubblework-russet
- 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
- Address
- 19, 19a and 19b Market Place, Swaffham, PE37 7LA
- OS grid reference
- TF 818 090
- Coordinates
- 52.6488, 0.6862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
19, 19a and 19b Market Place is a former house built in the late 18th century, which was extended to the rear in the early 19th century. In the late 20th century, it was converted into two shops and an office.
The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with flint used for the rear extension, and features a roof made of black-glazed pantiles.
The main elevation facing Market Place is two storeys plus an attic and consists of five bays. In the center of the ground floor, there is a late 20th-century plate glass door with a shallow hood supported by curved brackets. On either side of this door are late 20th-century timber shop fronts designed in a late 19th-century style, both featuring stallrisers, fluted pilasters with plain pedestals, plate glass windows, and shallow fascias. The shop front for number 19 includes a half-glazed door, while number 19a has a plate glass door.
The first floor has five six-over-six unhorned sash windows from the 19th century, all set within 18th-century flush frames and topped with gauged skewback arches. Above this, there is a dentilled eaves cornice. The roof has stone-coped gable ends and features two flat-topped dormers separated by a gabled dormer, all of which contain two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. Both gable ends exhibit tumbling, and the apex of each gable was rebuilt in the late 20th century when the internal gable-end stacks were removed.
Local climate
19, 19a and 19b 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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