9a and 9b, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
9a and 9b, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- shifting-screen-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 9a and 9b, Market Place, Glastonbury, BA6 9HW
- OS grid reference
- ST 498 388
- Coordinates
- 51.14712, -2.71766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 9A and 9B on Market Place are late 19th-century buildings that stand three storeys tall, plus an attic. They are constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and feature a slate roof adorned with cresting. The building includes one dormer with a triangular head and bargeboards, a cornice band, and a parapet that displays a shield dated 1892. The corners are accentuated with banded quoins, and there is a stringcourse present. The façade has three windows that are framed with ashlar surrounds, complete with keystones and sills supported on brackets. The windows are sash style, featuring vertical glazing bars. The ground floor has a moulded and dentilled fascia, although it now has modern shop-fronts. This building is part of a significant group that includes the listed buildings on the east side, the Market Cross, Nos 2 to 12 (even) High Street, Abbey Gatehouse, Town Hall, and St Dunstan's House on Magdalene Street.
Local climate
9a and 9b, Market Place receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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