9-11, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1983. Commercial building.

9-11, Market Square

WRENN ID
bitter-entrance-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1983
Type
Commercial building
Address
9-11, Market Square, Penrith, CA11 7BY
OS grid reference
NY 515 301
Coordinates
54.66367, -2.75245
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 9 to 11 on Market Square are 18th-century buildings that stand three storeys tall and are constructed of ashlar. The ground floor features late Victorian shop fronts with slender colonnets, curved heads to the window panes, and ornamented capitals on the pilasters. Each upper floor is adorned with six 16-paned sash windows.

Local climate

9-11, Market Square sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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