48, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House, council offices. 3 related planning applications.

48, Market Place

WRENN ID
iron-balcony-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House, council offices
Address
48, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7NP
OS grid reference
NZ 212 301
Coordinates
54.66584, -1.67284
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 48 Market Place is a former house, later used as council offices, dating from the late 17th century with some alterations. The building features painted render and a pantiled roof with a brick chimney. It has two storeys and two windows. On the left side, there is a half-glazed door set in plain reveals. To the right of the door, there is a full-height canted bay window with renewed fixed lights, and beyond that, a two-light window on each floor with 8-pane horizontal sliding sashes. The roof extends over the bay window and has a tall renewed brick chimney at the centre ridge. There is also a narrow right pent offshoot that is one high storey.

Local climate

48, Market Place receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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