Number 6 Market Place and Number 1a Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. Shop.

Number 6 Market Place and Number 1a Castle Street

WRENN ID
quartered-thatch-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1971
Type
Shop
Address
Number 6 Market Place and Number 1a Castle Street, Thetford
OS grid reference
TL 872 830
Coordinates
52.41354, 0.75127
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 6 Market Place and Number 1A Castle Street are two shops dating from the mid-16th century. They are timber-framed, plastered, and colourwashed, with a pantile roof. The building has two storeys, with the upper storey jettied. The front features a six-panelled door flanked on both sides by a late 19th-century canted bay window with false leading. To the right, there is a second similar late 19th-century shop front with a side entrance. The first floor has three late 20th-century windows and a three-light casement window to the right, which includes glazing bars. The roof is gabled, with a ridge stack located left of centre.

Inside, there is a winder staircase at the rear of the stack, which has a brick fireplace with chamfered jambs on the west side. The building features chamfered bridging beams with tongue and bar stops. The first-floor fireplace is four-centred and also has chamfered brick jambs. The roof was originally of the clasped purlin type from the 16th century, with some fragments still identifiable, although it has been mainly rebuilt at various times.

Local climate

Number 6 Market Place and Number 1a Castle Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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