49a and 49b, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1952. House, shop, surgery, office.

49a and 49b, Market Square

WRENN ID
sleeping-string-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1952
Type
House, shop, surgery, office
Address
49a and 49b, Market Square, Witney
OS grid reference
SP 356 096
Coordinates
51.78459, -1.48523
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

49A and 49B are houses that have been converted into a shop, surgery, and office. They date from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the early and mid-19th century. The rear is built from colourwashed limestone rubble, while the front and right side walls feature rendered timber framing. The building has a hipped stone slate roof, with an end stack made of stone finished in brick and a rear internal stack of 18th-century brick.

The structure is two stories tall with an attic and has a five-window range. The front includes three mid-19th-century horned sash windows and two blocked windows, all with moulded wood architraves, above modern shop fronts. There is a central six-panelled door from around 1830, with stone steps that are flanked by stick balusters topped with turned finials on the newel posts. The building has two hipped roof dormers with 20th-century casements.

On the right side wall, there is a 20th-century shop front and a four-window range of six-pane sashes in moulded wood architraves, along with two similar dormers. Inside, the building features chamfered and cased beams, a dragon beam on the right, and an early 19th-century dog-leg staircase with winders, which has early 18th-century turned balusters at the attic level.

Local climate

49a and 49b, Market Square receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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