3, North Green

No. 3 North Green is a house with two shops, dating from the early 18th century, with the shops added in the late 19th century. The building features painted incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings and quoins, a pantiled roof with a stone gable and parapet coping, stone ridge tiles, and old brick chimneys. It has three storeys and three bays, with the left bay being wider. There is a flat stone lintel over a renewed door and overlight at the left of the second bay, and a step up to a central half-glazed door in the shop located in the right half of the house. This area is framed by pilasters and features projecting square two-light bays with round-cornered lights, along with a renewed fascia board. The first bay has a wide projecting shop window with slender pilasters and a top cornice. The first floor includes sashes with glazing bars in a corniced canted bay window in the first bay, while the other bays have plain stone surrounds to the sashes, with square sashes on the second floor and late 19th-century sashes in the third bay. The steeply-pitched roof has a small square banded chimney at the left end and corniced chimneys at the right of the first bay and at the right end. The rear stair wing displays broad glazing bars and bullion glass in the return on the upper flight.

Inside, the principal first-floor room features a plain corniced chimney piece made to resemble Teesdale marble, with a cast iron fire surround in a rococo style and Regency fluted inner panels. There is an open well stair with a boxed-in balustrade, and the rear and left side doors at the end of the central passage have patterned fanlights. The partition wall between this house and No. 4 on the left is very thin, suggesting that at least the left bay was formerly part of the adjoining house. The second floor may be an addition, but the stucco obscures further detail.