23, Horse Market is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. House, shop.
23, Horse Market
- WRENN ID
- keen-pinnacle-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 23, Horse Market, Barnard Castle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 050 165
- Coordinates
- 54.54419, -1.92416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 23 Horse Market is a house that has been converted into a shop, built around 1850. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with rubble returns and features a roof covered in French tiles. It is designed in a classical style and stands three storeys high with a three-window range.
There is a step up to a 10-panel door, which has a blocked overlight above it, flanked by two quadrant panels within a round-headed arch that is adorned with rusticated voussoirs on the ground floor. The building has a stone plinth and rusticated quoins. The shop front on the ground floor consists of plate-glass windows beneath a large fascia. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows set in architraves, topped with floating cornices on consoles, while the second floor features 9-pane sash windows in lugged architraves. Rusticated quoins are present above the first floor, and there is a modillioned eaves cornice. The roof is equipped with corniced end chimneys located at the center of the front slope, which are topped with Tudor-style octagonal corniced chimney pots.
The interior has not been inspected. A plaque on the left side of the building indicates that it was once the site of the old storehouse and hospital of the Durham Militia, established in 1759.
Local climate
23, Horse Market receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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