51 and 53, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
51 and 53, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- iron-postern-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 51 and 53, Market Place, Warminster, BA12 9AZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 875 450
- Coordinates
- 51.20464, -2.17928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 51 and 53 Market Place are buildings dating from the 18th century or early 19th century. They stand three storeys tall and are constructed from small coursed and dressed rubble, featuring ashlar quoins. The roof is tiled and hipped to the left. The upper floors have three ranges of windows, which are glazing bar sashes, with a single hung window on the second floor. The windows have stone surrounds and wood lintels on the first floor. The ground floor features a wide late Victorian shop front with a recessed and tiled central entrance, along with a house entrance to the left. To the right, there is a slightly recessed extension that has the same ridge height as No 55. This extension includes a plate glass sash window on both the first and second floors, a band over the ground floor, a cill band on the second floor, and a yard entry on the ground floor.
Local climate
51 and 53, Market Place receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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