9 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. House, shop. 1 related planning application.

9 Market Place

WRENN ID
silent-soffit-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1973
Type
House, shop
Address
9 Market Place, Swaffham, PE37 7AB
OS grid reference
TF 819 090
Coordinates
52.64828, 0.68793
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

9 Market Place is a house with a shop, built in the early 19th century, with later alterations. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with the front elevation painted, a pantile roof, and a brick stack.

The plan is a double-pile design. The principal elevation features two storeys plus a dormer attic in two bays. The ground floor has a late 20th-century shopfront with a central plate-glass door flanked by plate-glass display windows, topped by an early 21st-century fascia. On the first floor, there are two two-over-two horned sashes with gauged brick heads. The attic has a segmental-headed dormer with a three-over-three unhorned sash. An internal gable-end stack at the north end was rebuilt in the 20th century.

On the right-hand return, the north gable end of the front range has a one-over-one sash on the ground floor, which is rendered, while the unrendered first floor features a six-over-six sash. The gabled rear range has a blocked window opening on the ground floor, which is part rendered and part painted, and a 20th-century metal-framed casement on the first floor. The different patina in the brickwork at the gable head and its laying in stretcher bond indicates that it has been rebuilt, likely in the 20th century.

Inside, the ground floor has been opened out into a single retail space with applied 20th-century timberwork.

Local climate

9 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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