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

14 Market Place

WRENN ID
weathered-railing-summer
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
14 Market Place, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7AB
OS grid reference
TF 819 089
Coordinates
52.648, 0.68821
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

14 Market Place is a house built in the late 18th century that was converted into a shop in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from rendered and colour-washed brick, topped with a pantile roof.

Situated on a corner site, the building has a rectangular plan with a long, narrow wing extending to the northwest. It is two stories high and features a hipped roof with exposed rafter feet at the eaves. The south and east roof slopes include flat-roofed, two-light dormer windows that date from the 20th century and are fully integrated into the roof space.

The mid-19th century shop front wraps around the corner and originally had an entrance in the canted corner, which featured a pair of columns with foliated capitals supporting a nodding arch adorned with hollow mouldings and fleuron decoration. This entrance has since been replaced with a window. A cast iron corner bracket for a shop sign is mounted above the former entrance. The first floor on both the south and east fronts is illuminated by a two-over-two pane horned sash window, with the east window still having an external blind box. Additionally, there is a doorway with glazed upper panels on the south front, inserted in the 20th century, located to the left of the shop front and serving as the main entry to the shop.

Local climate

14 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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