27 and 27A Market Place (Currently listed as 27 Market Place) is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. House.

27 and 27A Market Place (Currently listed as 27 Market Place)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1973
Type
House
Address
27 and 27A Market Place (Currently listed as 27 Market Place), Swaffham, PE37 7LA
OS grid reference
TF 818 090
Coordinates
52.6487, 0.68683
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

27 and 27A Market Place is a former house built in the late 17th century, with alterations and additions from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It was converted into a shop with living accommodation above in the late 19th century.

The building is constructed of flint and brick, with the ground floor rendered and whitewashed. It features a pantile roof and brick stacks. The exterior consists of two storeys in two bays. The ground floor has an off-centre right multi-paned door set in a reeded surround, topped with a timber hood supported by modillion consoles. To the right of the door is a two-over-two horned sash window with a shallow timber hood on curved brackets, while to the left is a late-19th century canted shop front with plate glass display windows and diamond-shaped transom lights. On the first floor, there is an eight-over-eight unhorned sash window in the left bay and a smaller six-over-six unhorned sash window in the right bay, both featuring brick quoins and 19th-century timber hoods. The parapet, raised in the 19th century in Flemish bond brick, is topped with 19th-century cast-iron cresting. Behind the parapet is a gabled roof with a flat-topped dormer that has a two-light casement. The two gable end stacks were rebuilt in the 20th century.

Inside, the east wall has a blocked fireplace that previously had a winder staircase on the south side. The ground and first floors feature chamfered bridging beams with tongue stops, and the 18th-century roof includes principals, two tiers of taper-tenoned butt purlins, and collars.

Local climate

27 and 27A Market Place (Currently listed as 27 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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