The Market Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Market building. 6 related planning applications.
The Market Buildings
- WRENN ID
- dusted-beam-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- Market building
- Address
- The Market Buildings, ME14 1HP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 759 558
- Coordinates
- 51.27437, 0.52168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Buildings, dating to around 1835 and including a Corn Exchange, are a mid-19th century structure. The buildings are two storeys and have a stuccoed exterior. A parapet and coping run along the roofline, with raised panels at intervals. The right-hand portion features seven sash windows with intact glazing bars, set within moulded architraves. The ground floor is characterized by a colonnade of seven round-headed arches, flanked by engaged Tuscan columns with keystones above each arch. The central portion has four round-headed arches with blank spaces above. The left-hand side has six cambered sash windows and two blank spaces, also with seven round-headed arches.
Local climate
The Market Buildings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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