16, Market Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1954. A Georgian Commercial building.
16, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-portal-primrose
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1954
- Type
- Commercial building
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 16, Market Place, Devizes
- OS grid reference
- SU 002 615
- Coordinates
- 51.35293, -1.99714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 16, Market Place is a 18th-century building that has been altered. It is set back from the Market Place and accessed via an alley. The building has two storeys and an attic, with stucco on a projecting plinth and moulded wood eaves. The roof is tiled and features two 19th-century gabled dormers.
On the first floor, there are three early 19th-century casement windows with moulded surrounds and cills. The ground floor has two similar windows with small cornices. The central entrance door is a good six-panel design from the early 18th century, featuring a narrow rectangular fanlight with four panes. This door is framed by an architrave surround and is topped with an elaborate curved and coved 'shell' hood, which is supported by double scroll brackets carved with acanthus ornament. There is also a panel above the door between the brackets, and the shell carving in the cove is enhanced with free carving of branches and leaves.
The listed buildings on the South West Side, South East Side, Market Hall, Market Cross, and the Fountain form a group, as do all the listed buildings on the South West Side with Nos 1 to 18 (consecutive) Northgate Street.
Local climate
16, Market Place receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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