3, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1969. A {} Town house, office. 6 related planning applications.
3, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- solemn-baluster-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1969
- Type
- Town house, office
- Period
- {}
- Address
- 3, Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AD
- OS grid reference
- SU 398 878
- Coordinates
- 51.58831, -1.42595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 3 Market Place is a town house that has been converted into offices, built around 1870. The building features red machine brick with yellow machine brick quoins and dressings, topped with an old tile roof. It stands three storeys high and has a three-window range. The windows are two-panelled sashes set within segmental arches that have keystones. The ground floor is adorned with a wood modillioned cornice, while a brick dentilled string course and cornice with egg and dart motifs decorate the soffits. The roof is gabled and includes a ridge stack. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value with other nearby structures.
Local climate
3, Market Place receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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