28 and 29, 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. House, shops. 4 related planning applications.

28 and 29, Market Place

WRENN ID
long-postern-honey
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
House, shops
Address
28 and 29, Market Place, Wantage
OS grid reference
SU 397 879
Coordinates
51.58873, -1.42776
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

28 and 29 Market Place is a house that has been converted into shops, dated 1708 on the doorway of the left side wall. The front was remodeled around 1880 and features Flemish bond brick with flared headers, limestone quoins and dressings, and a late 19th-century banded club and plain-tile roof with crested ridge tiles and brick stacks. The building has a double-depth plan, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a three-window range. The late 19th-century shop front includes 20th-century doors and a decorative cast-iron parapet. Stone lintels with decorative keystones and chamfered rusticated architraves support late 19th-century sash windows. The early 18th-century cyma-moulded plinth and storey band, along with chamfered limestone quoins, add to its character. The late 19th-century bracketed eaves feature three gabled dormers with cast-iron balconies, crested ridge tiles, and finials. The hipped roof has a left internal stack. The left side wall displays gauged brick flat arches over late 19th-century sashes and a large late 19th-century window with a cornice next to the doorway, which is adorned with Tuscan pilasters and acanthus leaf brackets supporting a scrolled pediment featuring a coat of arms and the date 17/08, with a dropped key in the tympanum inscribed with the letter K. Inside, there is a central dog-leg staircase with a landing, featuring barley-sugar balusters on an open string, fine fret-cut brackets, a fluted newel post, and a panelled dado.

Local climate

28 and 29, 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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