Lesser Market is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1984. Market. 1 related planning application.
Lesser Market
- WRENN ID
- muffled-jade-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- Basingstoke MP: Luke Murphy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1984
- Type
- Market
- Address
- Lesser Market, Wote Street, RG21 7QD
- OS grid reference
- SU 638 519
- Coordinates
- 51.26293, -1.08695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lesser Market is a single-storey building constructed in 1885, featuring a stucco front with five bays. It includes four rectangular openings for shop windows and a narrower archway at the second bay from the south, leading to a footway. The building has a plain low block parapet with a raised central feature that includes a lettered panel and a pediment supported by scrolls on each side. A large cornice moulding with bold dentils sits above a plain frieze, and there is an architrave barrel adorned with carved and coloured fruit ornamentation, which is also repeated as pilaster strips between the openings. The windows are made of plate glass, and there are plain doors. The roof is slate. This structure is prominent and connects to other listed buildings, although its facade conceals a later 20th-century three-storey building that is of no architectural interest.
Local climate
Lesser Market receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Radon risk assessment
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