22 and 23, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1970. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
22 and 23, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- muffled-parapet-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1970
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 22 and 23, Market Place, City of Durham, DH1 3NJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 273 425
- Coordinates
- 54.77697, -1.57609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 22 and 23 Market Place is a shop built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. The building is designed in the Gothic style and has three storeys plus attics, with two bays.
The ground floor shop has new glazing set beneath two wide arches, which are flanked by three narrower arches that have moulded heads. The fascia brackets are shafted. The upper floors are adorned with stone-mullioned windows, each with two lights, cusped heads, and flower-stopped drip moulds. Notably, there is a one-storey canted bay on the first floor with arched recesses that contain lancet windows beneath a pierced quatrefoil parapet, which serves as a balcony for the second floor. The half-dormers feature paired lancets under stepped gables topped with fleur-de-lis finials. The gutter cornice is supported by flower-carved stone brackets and includes rainwater heads, while the second-floor string has similar moulding encircling the drainpipe.
Local climate
22 and 23, Market Place receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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