Number 3 (Annexe to Unicorn Hotel) and Number 4 Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1970. Annexe, shop. 3 related planning applications.

Number 3 (Annexe to Unicorn Hotel) and Number 4 Market Place

WRENN ID
solitary-lintel-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1970
Type
Annexe, shop
Address
Number 3 (Annexe to Unicorn Hotel) and Number 4 Market Place, Ripon, HG4 1BP
OS grid reference
SE 312 712
Coordinates
54.13615, -1.52279
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 3 (annexe to Unicorn Hotel) and Number 4 Market Place is an 18th-century building located on the east side of Market Place in Ripon. The structure features either grooved stucco or painted ashlar and is topped with a slate roof. It stands three storeys high and is distinguished by a moulded modillioned wooden eaves cornice and a blocking course. The building has four bays with cased sash windows. Number 3 includes a simple mid-19th century wooden shopfront with two Tuscan pilasters and a moulded cornice. In contrast, Number 4 boasts a more elaborate late 19th century shopfront, featuring fluted pilasters, a door set in a recessed porch with five moulded panels and an oblong fanlight, as well as a shop door in a recessed porch between plate glass windows, with glazing bars that extend upwards to create a floral motif.

Local climate

Number 3 (Annexe to Unicorn Hotel) and Number 4 Market Place receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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