10, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

10, Market Place

WRENN ID
strange-bastion-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1961
Type
Inn
Address
10, Market Place, Wincanton, BA9 9LP
OS grid reference
ST 712 286
Coordinates
51.05631, -2.4111
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 10 Market Place, formerly known as the Greyhound Hotel, is an 18th-century inn that has been converted into an antique shop. It was designed by Nathaniel Ireson and is constructed from local stone rubble that has been rendered and colorwashed, featuring printed ashlar dressings. The building has a plain clay tile roof behind a parapet and brick chimney stacks.

It stands three stories tall and has five bays. Architectural details include a plinth, rusticated quoins, a cornice, and a parapet. The windows are 12-pane sash windows, most of which have been renewed, set in architraved surrounds with triple keystones. The late 20th-century shopfront is located in bays four and five, while bay three features a carriage archway leading to the yard. This archway has a flat arch with triple keystones, flanked by fluted Doric pilasters that support a plain entablature with metopes at the ends. Above the archway is a shallow oriel window with three 12-pane sashes and a lead flat roof, which includes a Royal Crest commemorating a one-night stay by Queen Victoria as a child.

An elaborate wrought iron bracket for a hanging sign is located above the entrance. The parapet has smaller quoins and a pitched center section that features an oval plaque with a greyhound, flanked by pilasters. The center panel and the ends of the parapet are topped with pineapple vase finials. Inside the carriageway, there are two six-panel doors with architraves to the left, and further back on the right are two single-storey bay windows. The building is first mentioned in parish records from 1743 and was advertised as 'new built' in 1760. The Greyhound may represent the arms of the Churchey family of The Dogs, Tout Hill.

Local climate

10, Market Place receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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