38, Horse Market is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. Offices.

38, Horse Market

WRENN ID
cold-threshold-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1973
Type
Offices
Address
38, Horse Market, Barnard Castle
OS grid reference
NZ 049 165
Coordinates
54.54434, -1.92486
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 38 Horse Market is an office building dating from around 1840, designed in the Tudor style. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a grey slate roof with stone gable copings and chimneys. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical one-window range. A high moulded plinth supports the structure.

The entrances on either side are framed by chamfered Tudor arches and have block-stopped hoodmoulds above shaped doors with 3-over-3 panels. The central feature is a full-height canted bay, which includes plain sashes arranged in a 1:3:1-light configuration. The ground floor windows are set within Tudor arches, while the first-floor windows are in chamfered surrounds, each with a label mould above. A string course runs beneath the first-floor bay window, which is topped by panels below the roof parapet on the eaves string. The gables are adorned with roll-moulded coping and end chimneys, and there is a central stone stack chimney along the ridge, featuring five tall Tudor-style pots with plinths and cornices. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

38, Horse Market 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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