The Market House is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1952. Market house.
The Market House
- WRENN ID
- pale-outpost-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1952
- Type
- Market house
- Address
- The Market House, the Square, Chagford, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 700 875
- Coordinates
- 50.67302, -3.84032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market House is a market house built in 1862 on the site of a former market house, which was modernised around 1970. It is constructed from granite stone rubble with granite ashlar detailing and has a slate roof. The building has an octagonal shape and faces south-east. The rear section has always included public lavatories on either side of a small room. Originally, the front was open, but it has since been filled with small shops. There is a front door leading to a central stairwell that goes up to a first-floor room in the roof space.
The exterior features a large two-centred arched doorway with a chamfered surround, and the head of the arch is filled with an iron grille. Above this doorway is a gable that contains an uninscribed plaque. The two sides flanking the entrance have been converted into shops. The corner posts between these sections have battered plinths and soffit-chamfered caps. The lavatories each have a narrow two-centred arch doorway, and the rear room includes a large two-light window with Decorated Gothic tracery. The pyramid roof has gabled dormers that contain arch-headed fixed pane windows, and at the apex, there is a louvred lantern topped by a narrow spire and a wrought iron weather vane. The interior was modernised around 1970. This site was originally home to a 16th-century market house and courthouse, first mentioned in 1574.
Local climate
The Market House receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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