83 and 83a Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. House.

83 and 83a Market Place

WRENN ID
grim-courtyard-ridge
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
83 and 83a Market Place, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7AQ
OS grid reference
TF 819 089
Coordinates
52.64784, 0.68876
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

83 and 83a Market Place is a house built in the late 18th century that was converted into offices and a flat in the 20th century.

The building is constructed of red brick laid in Flemish bond, with brick dressings and a roof covered in black-glazed pantiles. It faces west onto Market Place and has a rectangular plan, featuring a rear wing and an attached outbuilding at number 83a.

The exterior consists of two storeys and an attic beneath a pitched roof, which has two late 20th-century dormers fitted with two-light casements and a central ridge stack. The three-bay façade includes a triple brick platband just below the eaves and shallow, plain brick pilasters at either end. In the central bay, there are double-leaf 20th-century doors with lower wooden panels and upper glazed sections, set within a late 18th-century timber doorcase of pilasters that rise to a plain entablature. This is flanked by late 20th-century canted display windows with plate glass. The first floor features two recessed six-over-six pane unhorned sashes under gauged skewback arches, with the central window being blind. The north return wall was rebuilt in red brick in the late 20th century.

The interior was opened out in the late 20th century and converted into offices.

Local climate

83 and 83a 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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