The Old Fishmarket is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Fishmarket
- WRENN ID
- grim-solder-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1988
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Old Fishmarket, the Pantiles, TN2 5TN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 581 387
- Coordinates
- 51.1262, 0.25819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Fishmarket is a shop that was formerly a fish market, dating from around 1890 but marked as established in 1745. It is a single-storey building with a timber frame, featuring some plastered infill and sections of diagonal weatherboarding, all resting on a plinth made of both sandstone and brick. The roof is tiled.
The front of the building has a roughcast pediment with a deep bracket cornice that also indicates its establishment in 1745. It is flanked by four engaged modified eight-sided Ionic columns and has folding central doors, along with a later wooden hood. The sides of the building include sliding doors and partitions. Inside, the roof is supported by queen posts, with angled struts providing additional strength at the corners and along the ridge piece.
Local climate
The Old Fishmarket receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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