The Little Market House is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Market house.
The Little Market House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-rampart-hawk
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Market house
- Address
- The Little Market House, Cornmarket
- OS grid reference
- SU 865 930
- Coordinates
- 51.62946, -0.75087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Little Market House, dating from around 1604 and remodelled by Robert Adam in 1761, is located on the north side of Cornmarket. This building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a lead-covered dome. It has an octagonal central block with a fan-shaped extension on the northern half, which ends in half pedimented sections towards the south. The ground floor is arcaded and includes stone impost bands, archivolts, and keystones above the arches of the central bay. The first floor has sashes without glazing bars, with two outer light windows on either side, positioned directly under the cornice of the half pediment. The inner windows are surrounded by architraves. The shallow octagonal dome has ribs and is set on a triple stepped blocking course. There is a cornice band at the first floor level with a blocking course and a long central panel. A late 19th or early 20th-century dome turret light is also present. The Little Market House is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, also known as Little Market Hall or The Shambles. It forms part of a group with Nos 1 to 5 (consecutive), the Guildhall, premises occupied by Midland Bank, and The Falcon Hotel.
Local climate
The Little Market House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% 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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