Gate piers and flanking walls north of 18 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. Gate piers and flanking walls. 4 related planning applications.
Gate piers and flanking walls north of 18 Market Place
- WRENN ID
- guardian-hinge-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1973
- Type
- Gate piers and flanking walls
- Address
- Gate piers and flanking walls north of 18 Market Place, Swaffham, PE37 7QH
- OS grid reference
- TF 818 090
- Coordinates
- 52.6483, 0.68664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and flanking wall, built in the mid- to late 18th century, have walls that were rebuilt in the late 20th century.
The two square gate piers are made of red brick and topped with carved Coade stone finials on plain stone bases. The finials are bulbous urns decorated with vine-trail designs. The flanking walls are also made of red brick laid in English bond and feature shallow stone coping; these walls were reconstructed in the late 20th century. The rear (south-west) side of the north pier still shows 18th-century brickwork. The flanking walls connect to the north block of Swaffham Sixth Form Centre to the south-east, which is a Grade II listed building, and to the brick screen wall and garden entrance of Oakleigh House to the north-west, which is a Grade II* listed building.
Local climate
Gate piers and flanking walls north of 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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