The Fountain, 14 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1949. Commercial/residential. 3 related planning applications.

The Fountain, 14 Market Place

WRENN ID
grey-finial-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1949
Type
Commercial/residential
Address
The Fountain, 14 Market Place, Wallingford, OX10 0AD
OS grid reference
SU 606 893
Coordinates
51.59993, -1.12504
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Fountain, located at 14 Market Place, is a house that has been converted into a shop and dwelling. It dates from the early 18th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings and features an old plain-tile roof with a brick stack on the left side. It is three stories high and has a single-window range. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front with a glazed door on the left. The first floor features a Venetian window with French windows in the center, flanked by unhorned sash windows on either side, all with glazing bars and a cambered rubbed brick head above the center window. The second floor also has a Venetian window, but with casements and a cambered red brick head in the center. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Fountain, 14 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 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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