31, 31a and 31b, Horse Market is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. House. 4 related planning applications.

31, 31a and 31b, Horse Market

WRENN ID
slow-tin-crag
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
Address
31, 31a and 31b, Horse Market, Barnard Castle, DL12 8LX
OS grid reference
NZ 049 165
Coordinates
54.54439, -1.92446
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

31, 31A, and 31B Horse Market is a house that has been converted into shops and a club. It dates from the mid-18th century, with 20th-century shop fronts added. The building is made of coursed squared stone and features rusticated quoins. The roof is covered with concrete tiles and has rendered and stone chimneys.

The structure has three storeys and a five-window range. There are two steps leading up to a central half-glazed door that has been renewed, set within a pedimented architrave supported by scroll brackets. The flanking shop fronts, which are from the 20th century, have plate-glass windows and each includes a recessed central entrance. A continuous floor band aligns with the pediment above the door.

All the upper windows have architraves. The first-floor windows are plain sashes set on a sill band, with the space below used as a shop fascia for the left shop. The second floor features smaller 9-pane sashes, with a string course between the architraves at the lintels. The top of the building has an entablature with a gutter cornice. The roof is adorned with end chimneys, where the lower parts are rendered and the upper parts are made of coursed squared stone, finished with cyma cornices. The interiors were not inspected. Nos 31A and 31B were listed separately on February 22, 1973.

Local climate

31, 31a and 31b, 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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