The Old Market House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. Market house. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Market House
- WRENN ID
- wild-gargoyle-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1974
- Type
- Market house
- Address
- The Old Market House, Fore Street, St. Blaise, PL24 2NJ
- OS grid reference
- SX 069 548
- Coordinates
- 50.36194, -4.71629
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Market House is a late 18th or early 19th century building of roughcast construction. It is two storeys high. The ground floor is characterised by four simple granite Doric columns which support the upper level. Three modern, large two-light casements now occupy the ground floor openings, replacing former sash windows. The roof is hipped and covered in slate, with paired brackets to the eaves soffit.
Local climate
The Old Market House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 13 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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