55, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House and shop.
55, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- lone-steel-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House and shop
- Address
- 55, Market Place, Middleton in Teesdale
- OS grid reference
- NY 946 256
- Coordinates
- 54.62566, -2.08394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 55, located in Middleton in Teesdale Market Place, is a house and shop dating from the mid-18th century, with early 19th-century alterations. The building is constructed of coursed rubble featuring large quoins and painted ashlar dressings, topped with a roof made of graduated Lakeland slates, which has a stone ridge and a coursed squared sandstone chimney. It stands three storeys tall and has three bays, with the third bay being wider.
On the left side, there is a six-panel door set in a plain stone surround. The shop occupies the two right bays and features a recessed central door, with four rows of three panes, and windows that have four rows of five panes, all beneath a narrow fascia and cornice. The first-floor sashes are 16-pane and have plain stone surrounds, while the second-floor sashes are 12-pane, with wide flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The roof includes a chimney at the right end with a string course.
Local climate
55, Market Place sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings