8, Market Place

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ2130 MARKET PLACE 634-1/8/58 (South side) 21/04/52 No.8

GV II

Formerly known as: No.13 MARKET PLACE. Shown on OS map as 13. House, now restaurant and flat. Early C18 with early C19 alterations. Painted pebble-dashed render and ashlar plinth and dressings. Concrete tile roof. 3 storeys, 1 window. Plain stone surround to 6-panel door with plain overlight. Shallow tripartite bow window at right with fine glazing bars to 8:12:8-pane sashes, and scroll brackets to cornice. First-floor sill band to paired 12-pane sashes with flat stone lintel, plain stone surround to 9-pane second-floor sashes. Stone eaves gutter cornice. Roof has plain stone gable coping at left, and end chimneys, the right raised when adjacent house built to higher level. Left return rendered when adjacent building demolished. INTERIOR shows ground-floor rooms united and some late C20 Art Deco style stained glass. Some doors on first floor have fluted architraves with corner paterae; first-floor front room has stucco ceiling decoration of leafy frieze and palmette band. Second floor has 2-panel doors to closet at left end of transverse passage, and to small room in rear wing. The latter room has early C18 Greek key fret frieze on dado of raised fielded panels, all painted dark blue in C18 manner. Some early C19 cast-iron fire grates. Stair early C19 with stick balusters and curved handrail.

Listing NGR: NZ2121030080