7 and 7a, The Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1970. Building. 6 related planning applications.
7 and 7a, The Market Place
- WRENN ID
- watchful-latch-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1970
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 7 and 7a, The Market Place, Faversham, ME13 7AG
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 614
- Coordinates
- 51.31608, 0.89112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, consisting of numbers 7 and 7A, is located on The Market Place. It dates from the 17th century and was altered and refaced in the 19th century. The building is two storeys high with an attic, and it has five windows and three hipped dormers. It is stuccoed and features a heavy eaves bracket cornice, as well as a tiled roof. The original glazing bars are missing from the windows. The ground floor contains two 20th-century plate glass shop fronts, flanked by rusticated pilasters. A carriage entrance is located at the north end. The building is part of a group of listed buildings on The Market Place, which includes numbers 1 and 2, numbers 4 to 7, number 7A, numbers 1 to 11, and 11A Court Street.
Local climate
7 and 7a, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- 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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