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

4 Market Place

WRENN ID
dreaming-stone-birch
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
4 Market Place, Swaffham, PE37 7AB
OS grid reference
TF 819 090
Coordinates
52.64841, 0.68759
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

4 Market Place is a house built around 1780 and converted into a shop around 1820. The roof is covered with pantiles, and the walls are made of painted brick.

The building is roughly square in shape and stands two storeys high, facing north towards Lynn Street. It features a pitched roof with gables on the east and west sides. The red brick walls are painted and include a dentil eaves course, along with an early 19th-century continuous platband above the ground floor. The ground floor has a late 20th-century half-glazed door on the left and a bowed early 19th-century shop display window with 24 panes on the right, topped with a moulded and dentilled cornice. On the first floor, there is a single three-over-six sash window without horns in a flush frame. The west gable end has two ground floor windows of different sizes, both three-over-six sash windows without horns, with the right window added in the 20th century. The first floor has a single six-pane window. The rear elevation includes a 20th-century lean-to outshut.

Inside, it is believed that the first-floor north wall features a painted mural of a landscape, possibly depicting potteries and a castle in the background, which may have been created in the late 18th or early 19th century.

Local climate

4 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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