6, Green Market is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Commercial.
6, Green Market
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-finial-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 6, Green Market, Penzance
- OS grid reference
- SW 471 302
- Coordinates
- 50.11841, -5.53788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
6 Green Market is an early 19th-century building featuring slate hanging painted on its facade. The gable is designed to resemble a pediment. The structure stands three storeys tall and has two sash windows with glazing bars and exposed casing. It is topped with a slate roof. The ground floor is supported by four square fluted columns, which are adorned with a frieze and a modillion cornice above. The shop front is set back and includes reeded framing around the windows and a central doorway. This building, along with Nos 3 to 7 Green Market and the White Lion Hotel, as well as Nos 1 to 3 Alverton Street, forms a cohesive group.
Local climate
6, Green Market sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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