34 and 36, Horse Market is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. House, shops. 1 related planning application.
34 and 36, Horse Market
- WRENN ID
- solitary-sill-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- House, shops
- Address
- 34 and 36, Horse Market, Barnard Castle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 049 165
- Coordinates
- 54.54428, -1.92475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
34 and 36 Horse Market is a house that has been converted into two shops and a flat. It dates from the mid to late 18th century and is built of coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and dressings. The roof is made of graduated stone slates with a stone ridge, chimneys, and kneelers. The building is two storeys high and has a three-window range.
The central entrance features a low six-panel passage door set in a tooled stone surround with a cornice above. To the left, there is a late 19th-century shop front that includes a recessed doorway on the right with a tiled floor, slender mullions, and end pilasters with gabled fluted curved brackets supporting the fascia and cornice. The smaller shop front on the right has a door on the left and a window with transomed upper lights, wide pilasters, and a plain fascia.
On the first floor, there is a corniced canted bay window on the left with a two-pane upper sash, while the centre and right windows are 16-pane sashes that have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The roof has a right gable that is overlaid by an adjacent building, but a cyma-moulded kneeler projects above the quoins. There are stone chimneys at each end of the building. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
34 and 36, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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