29, Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1977. Commercial building.

29, Market Street

WRENN ID
guardian-bailey-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hampshire
Constituency
East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1977
Type
Commercial building
Address
29, Market Street, Alton
OS grid reference
SU 716 393
Coordinates
51.14887, -0.97755
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

29 Market Street is an 18th-century building that stands two storeys high and features a single bay with a canted corner bay. The exterior is stuccoed and topped with an old tile roof. The ground floor has modern shop fronts, while a moulded band runs along the first floor. The first floor includes one broad flush casement window and is adorned with a dentilled eaves cornice.

The building also has a return on Amery Street, which is one bay wide and includes a lower, two-bay extension. This section is constructed of colour-washed brick and also features an old tiled roof. On the left side, there is a door and a recessed sash window, with another recessed sash window on the first floor. On the right side, there is a blank window with a single recessed sash window above it.

29 Market Street is part of a group that includes Nos 19 and 21, as well as Nos 23, 25, 25A, 27, and the King's Head Public House.

Local climate

29, Market Street receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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Nearby listed buildings

  1. The 'King's Head' Public House Grade II 17 m
  2. 25,25a and 27, Market Street Grade II 27 m
  3. 22, Market Street Grade II 28 m
  4. 1, Amery Street Grade II 28 m
  5. Town Hall Grade II 30 m
  6. 18 and 20, Market Street Grade II 34 m
  7. 16, Market Street Grade II 40 m
  8. 2 and 3, Amery Street Grade II 41 m
  9. 23, Market Street Grade II 41 m
  10. 11 and 13, Lenten Street Grade II 47 m