26, 28 and 30 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1951. Terrace of town houses. 3 related planning applications.

26, 28 and 30 Market Place

WRENN ID
fossil-passage-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1951
Type
Terrace of town houses
Address
26, 28 and 30 Market Place, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7QH
OS grid reference
TF 818 089
Coordinates
52.64787, 0.68715
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

26, 28 and 30 Market Place is a terrace of three town houses built in the late 18th century, possibly incorporating earlier materials at the rear. The buildings were partly converted to offices in the 19th century and to flats in the late 20th century. They are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and feature a roof made of mixed red and black-glazed pantiles.

The exterior of the three former houses presents as a single composition, rising three storeys and comprising seven bays. It has platbands on the first and second floors and a dentil eaves cornice. The principal elevation is arranged in a 2:3:2 format, with the central three bays (number 28) set forward. This section features two symmetrically placed entrances with four-panelled doors set within stuccoed doorcases that have minor incised decoration, plain entablatures with dentils, and hoods. The ground and first floors have six-over-six unhorned sash windows in each bay, except for the two left-hand bays on the ground floor of number 30, which have 20th-century one-over-one horned sashes. The second floor contains seven three-over-three unhorned sashes. All windows have painted timber sills and gauged skewback arches with painted keystones.

Inside, the ground-floor front room of number 30 features moulded cornices and lugged window surrounds, while the ground-floor room of number 26 has a modillion cornice. Number 28 includes an open-string staircase with two turned balusters per tread, scrolled tread ends, baluster newels, and a ramped handrail.

Local climate

26, 28 and 30 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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