26, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
26, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- lone-spindle-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 26, Market Place, Olney, MK46 4BA
- OS grid reference
- SP 889 512
- Coordinates
- 52.15273, -0.70059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 26 on Market Place is an early 19th-century building constructed of red brick featuring yellow headers that create a chequer pattern. It has a shallow fishscale slate roof with wide eaves and a brick chimney stack. The building stands three storeys tall and has a four-panel door on the left side, which is topped by a plain rectangular fanlight. The doorcase is adorned with panelled pilasters and square coupled brackets that support moulded blocks at each end of a moulded cornice hood. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows beneath a single painted lintel, and each upper floor also features two sash windows.
Local climate
26, Market Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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