6, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1950. Commercial building. 16 related planning applications.
6, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- grey-wicket-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1950
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 6, Market Place, Blandford Forum, DT11 7EE
- OS grid reference
- ST 884 062
- Coordinates
- 50.85584, -2.16526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 Market Place is an 18th-century building, constructed after 1731. It is a three-storey structure with a three-window front, featuring typical brickwork. The central bay projects slightly, and the building has sash windows with altered glazing bars and keystones. There is a small eaves cornice and a standard W H S shop-front. This building is part of a group that includes all the listed buildings in Market Place, as well as several properties on East Street, West Street, and the Church of St Peter and St Paul.
Local climate
6, Market Place receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 16 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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