New Markets With Left Entrance And Rooms Above

This building is a covered market with a left entrance and rooms above, constructed in 1851 by P.C. Hardwick for the Durham Markets Company. It is made of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a roof of large Welsh slates, designed in the Tudor style. The structure has three storeys and an attic, with one bay. It includes a wide Tudor arch beneath a frieze decorated with blind quatrefoils. Above the arch, there are stone mullioned-and-transomed windows, with three lights on the first and second floors featuring relieving arches, and two lights in the attic under the gable, which is supported by moulded kneelers and topped with a fleur-de-lis finial.

Inside, slender Tuscan cast iron columns support pierced beams and slender tied trusses, along with a glazed roof. The north end of the interior is stone-vaulted.