2, The Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
2, The Market Place
- WRENN ID
- idle-foundation-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1972
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 2, The Market Place, Faversham, ME13 7AG
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 613
- Coordinates
- 51.31584, 0.89084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century building of three storeys and three windows, constructed of painted brick and topped with a parapet. The windows are set within moulded architraves, featuring large triple keystones above the ground-floor windows. Original glazing bars remain above the ground floor. The building has 19th-century shop fronts with more recent fascias, although an original Regency fascia is retained at the lower level. The rear of the building dates to the 16th century. This building is one of a group of listed buildings along The Market Place, together with numbers 1 and 2, 4 to 7 (inclusive), number 7A, and numbers 1 to 11 (inclusive) of Court Street.
Local climate
2, 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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