8, The Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Timber-framed building.
8, The Market Place
- WRENN ID
- sunken-mortar-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Timber-framed building
- Address
- 8, The Market Place, Faversham
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 613
- Coordinates
- 51.31584, 0.89139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 8, The Market Place, is a small timber-framed building dating from the 17th century, featuring a plastered front. It stands three storeys tall and has one window. The first and second floors overhang on a bressumer and brackets, topped by a gable. There is a bay window with a cove beneath it on the first floor, while the ground floor has a modern bay. The Bank has added a large section to the south in a style that imitates Tudor architecture. This building is part of a group of listed buildings in the Market Place, which includes Nos 8 and 10, along with Nos 39, 39A, and 40, the Omnibus Enquiry Office, and Nos 41 to 48 on Court Street.
Local climate
8, The Market Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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