31, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. Headquarters. 3 related planning applications.
31, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- odd-gutter-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Headquarters
- Address
- 31, Market Place, Melksham
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 636
- Coordinates
- 51.37175, -2.13879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at 31 Market Place is a fire brigade headquarters, now offices, with a detached garage to the rear, built in 1847. It is constructed of ashlar stone with a Welsh slate roof, incorporating coped verges and ashlar stacks topped with moulded caps. The building is two storeys high and has six windows facing the Market Place. The symmetrical front elevation is divided by four pilasters. The central bay features a tall, round-arched opening containing a six-panelled beaded door and a fanlight. Flanking this are two more tall, round-arched openings with impost mouldings, which contain eight-pane sash windows; the imposts form a string course. The first floor has two tall, round-arched sash windows in each of the three bays. Further features include a plain frieze, cornice and a blocking course. A wide ashlar round arch with imposts connects the building to the left to No 31 Town Hall, providing access to the garage behind, and has double doors within a semi-elliptical arched opening. The rear features a two-storey ashlar wing with sixteen-pane sash windows. The building holds group value with the Town Hall.
Local climate
31, Market Place receives an average of 830 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 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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