5, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1951. Town house. 7 related planning applications.
5, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- tired-portal-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1951
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 5, Market Place, RG40 1AL
- OS grid reference
- SU 811 685
- Coordinates
- 51.41034, -0.83422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Market Place is a town house that has been converted into a shop and offices. It dates from the early 17th century and was altered in the 18th century, with further changes and extensions made in the late 20th century. The building features a mix of part timber frame encased in brick and part brick construction, topped with an old tile roof. The ground floor has an open plan layout with extensions at the rear. The upper floors consist of two framed bays and the building stands three storeys high. It has a modillion cornice and a parapet with stone coping. The front has two wide sash windows with glazing bars and rubbed brick arches. The ground floor features an early 20th-century wooden shop front with a moulded fascia. Inside, the timber frame is exposed on the first and second floors, showcasing queen posts and clasped through purlins.
Local climate
5, 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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