New Markets with Left Entrance and Rooms Above is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1970. Market. 4 related planning applications.
New Markets with Left Entrance and Rooms Above
- WRENN ID
- eastward-chamber-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1970
- Type
- Market
- Address
- New Markets with Left Entrance and Rooms Above, Market Place, City of Durham, DH1 3NJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 273 425
- Coordinates
- 54.77721, -1.576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
New Markets with Left Entrance and Rooms Above receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 4 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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