6, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. Town house, shop, offices. 1 related planning application.
6, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- twisted-gateway-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1950
- Type
- Town house, shop, offices
- Address
- 6, Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AB
- OS grid reference
- SU 398 878
- Coordinates
- 51.58833, -1.42622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a town house, now used as a shop and offices, dating from approximately 1770. It is constructed of flared header bond brick with red brick quoins and dressings. The roof is not visible, and there is a brick stack on the right-hand end of the building.
The building is three storeys high and has a two-window facade. The original front door was a six-panelled door with a Gothick fanlight; it is now partly obscured by a 20th-century shop front. The first and second floors feature late 18th-century sash windows with gauged flat brick arches above them. A flush storey band runs along the front, and there is a parapet above. The roof is not visible.
Inside, there is a 19th-century straight-flight staircase in the passage, opposite the door to the upper floors. These upper floors contain 18th-century six-panelled doors and a late 18th-century fireplace in the top right room. A mid-19th-century dog-leg staircase provides access to the second floor.
Local climate
6, 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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