16 and 17, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Shop, house.
16 and 17, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-jamb-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- 16 and 17, Market Place, Wincanton
- OS grid reference
- ST 713 286
- Coordinates
- 51.05617, -2.41068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 16 and 17 Market Place are two shops and houses dating from the early 19th century. They are constructed of ashlar stone and are colourwashed, featuring a flat roof behind a shallow parapet. The building has three storeys and six bays, built on a curve. The ground floor includes two double shopfronts; the shopfront for No 16 has 19th-century stone pilasters and a fascia, while No 17's shopfront is quite plain and lacks a fascia. Between these shopfronts, there are plain doorways in bays 3 and 4. The doorway in bay 3 is mutilated, but bay 4 features a six-panel door with a margined fanlight above. At the upper levels, there are 12-pane sash windows set in plain openings, separated by a band course, and topped with an elaborate moulded cornice. The interior has not been seen. This building is visually important in the heart of the town.
Local climate
16 and 17, 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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