38 and 40, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1970. Shop and dwelling. 12 related planning applications.
38 and 40, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- salt-clay-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1970
- Type
- Shop and dwelling
- Address
- 38 and 40, Market Square, Witney, OX28 6AL
- OS grid reference
- SP 355 095
- Coordinates
- 51.7836, -1.4857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 38 and 40 Market Square is a shop and dwelling, now functioning solely as a shop, built around 1870 to 1880. The building is constructed of stucco with raised quoins and a storey band over a brick base, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof and featuring brick end stacks. It has a three-unit plan, two storeys, and an attic, with a three-window range.
The entrance on the left of centre consists of a 20th-century door with an overlight and a bracketed flat hood. The shop front features three late 19th-century cast-iron windows, each with leaf capitals on elaborate shafts entwined with foliage, and moulded cornices adorned with friezes of diamond patterns, leaves, and rosettes. Note that the shafts of the left window have been removed.
On the first floor, there are tripartite plate-glass sash windows set in moulded architraves. The building has bracketed eaves and three hipped roof dormers that contain 20th-century casements with slate-hung cheeks. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
38 and 40, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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