Market House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Market House
- WRENN ID
- silent-gargoyle-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Market House, 4, Northbrook, Market Lavington, SN10 4AN
- OS grid reference
- SU 015 542
- Coordinates
- 51.28737, -1.97857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property is a house, likely dating from the 16th or early 17th century. It is roughcast with a pantiled roof. It is two storeys high and has two bays. A 20th-century door is set beneath a slate canopy. The ground floor has timber casement windows, while the first floor has four-light painted stone-mullioned windows. There is a similar timber window to the rear. A large axial stack is located in the left gable, featuring two diagonally-set brick flues. A 20th-century lean-to has been added to the rear. The interior includes a blocked fireplace and two deeply chamfered beams. It represents the sole surviving early structure within the central market place of the town.
Local climate
Market House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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