27 and 28, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. House. 1 related planning application.
27 and 28, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- last-jade-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- 27 and 28, Market Place, RG1 2DE
- OS grid reference
- SU 716 735
- Coordinates
- 51.45598, -0.9696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
27 and 28 Market Place is an early 17th century building, possibly older, that stands three storeys high with an attic. It features a double jettied timber-frame structure with stucco infilling that is pebbledashed. The building has a tiled roof with a crested ridge and an ornamental cast iron gutter along the eaves. The second floor has a moulded jetty, and there are two dormers. Each floor includes two original bay windows with mullion windows, showcasing decorative lead work in the upper parts of the windows. The ground floor retains an 18th century shop front with a coved fascia and engaged columns. The outer doors consist of five panels that are raised and fielded, with a plain overlight to the right and a modern door to the left leading to No 29. Inside, the first floor ceilings are divided into panels by moulded strips.
Local climate
27 and 28, Market Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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