1, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. Shop.
1, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- eastward-corner-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1972
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 1, Market Place, Ulverston
- OS grid reference
- SD 285 783
- Coordinates
- 54.19597, -3.09668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Market Place is a shop with accommodation above, dating from the mid-19th century, although it incorporates earlier elements. The building is constructed of stucco and features a slate roof with a brick chimney cap. The east gable wall, which faces Market Place, is two storeys high plus an attic.
The ground floor has a mid-19th century shop front that includes two engaged Greek Doric columns, a projecting timber cornice, and a fascia with a modern sign-board attached. On the first floor, there are two sash windows without glazing bars, featuring plain reveals and projecting sills. The attic contains a single window similar to those below, but it has a round-arched head and is partly set within the gable, which has overhanging bracketed verges. The projecting timber gutters on the side walls return, giving the gable the appearance of an open pediment, and a chimney cap rises from the apex of the gable.
Historically, although the exterior appears to be from the 19th century, a painting of the Market Place from around 1780 depicts a brick building of the same shape, number of storeys, window positions, and chimney position.
Local climate
1, Market Place sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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