46 and 47, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House, council offices. 3 related planning applications.
46 and 47, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- stark-newel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, council offices
- Address
- 46 and 47, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7NP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 211 301
- Coordinates
- 54.66576, -1.67285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
46 and 47 Market Place is a house that was later used as council offices, dating from the early 18th century. The building features painted render with painted ashlar dressings and has a pantiled roof with stone gable copings and brick and rendered chimneys. It is two storeys high with four windows. The central door has Gothic panels and a painted stone surround, topped by a cornice and a prominent hood supported by shaped brackets. The windows on each floor are renewed sash windows. The steeply pitched roof has swept eaves and flat stone gable copings on moulded kneelers, with end chimneys—brick on the left and rendered on the right. The right side of the building has a small window inserted on each floor.
Local climate
46 and 47, 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 lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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