2, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. House.
2, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- blind-stone-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, Market Place, Fairford, GL7 4AB
- OS grid reference
- SP 152 009
- Coordinates
- 51.70752, -1.78104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Market Place is a house that includes a ground floor shop, likely built in the mid-18th century. The front is rendered and features a parapet wall with a plat band that aligns with No. 1 next door. The roof is made of stone slate, with corrugated asbestos at the rear, and there is a rendered ridge stack that has been raised in brick. The building is a single small range and has two storeys. On the first floor, there are three small 20th-century single lights, and below, there is a 20th-century shop front beneath a moulded stone cornice.
Local climate
2, Market Place receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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