15 and 17, Market Place is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. A Georgian House, now hotel. 1 related planning application.
15 and 17, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- first-step-thrush
- 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, now hotel
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 15 and 17, Market Place, Barnard Castle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 050 163
- Coordinates
- 54.54272, -1.92339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
15 and 17 Market Place is a house that has been converted into a hotel and shop, believed to date from 1690 according to historical deeds. The building features a 19th-century shop front on the right and an early 20th-century bar front on the left. Constructed from coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and painted dressings, it has a roof made of stone slates with stone gable coping and brick chimneys. The structure is L-shaped with a long rear wing and consists of three storeys with a four-window range.
The main entrance, located in the third bay, features a six-panel door with a three-pane overlight set in a pedimented architrave surround. The bar front on the left has a projecting shallow square bay with wood mullions supporting four lights and a transom. The small shop front on the right includes a half-glazed door on the left and a small square bay window on the right, all beneath a continuous entablature. Above these, the first floor has sashes with glazing bars, while the second floor features six-pane sashes, all with painted architraves. The roof has gable copings that rest on moulded kneelers.
At the rear, the wing consists of a three-storey, three-window range and a two-storey, three-window range. Inside, the building has fire screens added to a wide open-well stair, which features shallow risers, a grip handrail, and a boxed balustrade. The first-floor room, which spans the full width of the building, has later partitions and includes raised fielded panelling, cupboards, panelled shutters, and panelling below the windows, along with a deep chair rail. The doors in this area have architraves and panelled reveals. The second-floor front rooms contain two-panel cupboard doors with L-hinges, two-panel doors, a bolection-moulded stone fireplace surround, and splayed boarded recesses below the windows. The rear wing also features splayed window recesses with seats, some windows with broad glazing bars, and plain stone fireplace surrounds.
Local climate
15 and 17, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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