38 And 39, Market Place

38 and 39 Market Place are two houses dated 1724 for I.G., located on the west side of Middleton in Teesdale Market Place. The buildings are constructed of rubble and limewashed rubble, featuring painted tooled ashlar dressings and some quoins. They have a stone-flagged roof with a stone ridge and both rubble and ashlar chimneys. The houses are two storeys tall, with two bays each and an additional right bay that includes a vehicle entrance, making a total of five bays. There are quoins to the right of the fourth bay. Each house has flat lugged stone surrounds to renewed doors on the left, with the left lintel dated. The other bays contain late 19th-century sashes, which have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Above the vehicle entrance is a wide flat lintel, and the roof features three ridge chimneys.