8, 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 related planning application.
8, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- fossil-alcove-nightshade
- 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
- 8, Market Place, Ulverston, LA12 7BA
- OS grid reference
- SD 285 783
- Coordinates
- 54.19575, -3.09617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Market Place is a shop with accommodation above, likely built in the early to mid 19th century, with possible elements from the 18th century. The building features painted render with painted stone or render dressings and a slate roof. It has three storeys and two bays, with projecting painted quoins and a timber cornice gutter supported by three groups of three brackets. The ground floor has a mid-20th century shop front. The first-floor windows are sashed without glazing bars, framed by architraves with triangular pediment-like mouldings above. The second-floor windows are glazing-bar sashes set in narrow painted surrounds with projecting sills. There are chimneys on both the left and right sides of the building.
Local climate
8, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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