14 (Left Part), Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. House, restaurant.
14 (Left Part), Market Place
- WRENN ID
- dusted-bracket-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- House, restaurant
- Address
- 14 (Left Part), Market Place, Barnard Castle, DL12 8ND
- OS grid reference
- NZ 050 163
- Coordinates
- 54.54252, -1.92405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 14 (left part) is a house that later became part of the King's Head hotel and is now a restaurant on the ground floor, with part of the upper floors used as a nursing home. It dates from the late 18th century and may include earlier elements. The building is constructed from coursed squared stone with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and painted dressings, topped with a roof of thin slates. It has three low storeys and a three-window range. The central porch features tapered wooden posts and a cast-iron balcony above a six-panel door. On either side, there are canted bay windows with 16-pane sash windows, and the first-floor 16-pane sashes and second-floor 8-over-4-pane sashes have painted stone surrounds. The roof is low-pitched. The interior has not been inspected. A plaque to the right of the door notes that Charles Dickens stayed here in 1838 when it was part of the King's Head hotel while he was preparing "Nicholas Nickleby."
Local climate
14 (Left Part), Market Place 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
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