Former Butter Market is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Market.
Former Butter Market
- WRENN ID
- quartered-brass-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Market
- Address
- Former Butter Market, Fore Street, Looe
- OS grid reference
- SX 252 532
- Coordinates
- 50.35277, -4.45711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former butter market, built in 1853, is located on Fore Street in West Looe. It is constructed from slatestone rubble with some granite dressings and features a dry slate polygonal roof with deep projecting eaves. The roof is topped with a central bellcote that has segmental-arched openings above moulded imposts and a modillion cornice. The building has a small hexagonal plan and is a single storey. The west front includes a central elliptically-arched opening with impost blocks, a dropped keyblock, and a datestone above. The other elevations, which were originally open, now have plate-glass shop windows, with a doorway on the north-east side. Inside, the ceiling features radiating tie beams of trusses.
Local climate
Former Butter Market sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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