12, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
12, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- shifting-merlon-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 12, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7NP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 212 301
- Coordinates
- 54.66562, -1.6713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 Market Place is a house located in Bishop Auckland, dating from the early 18th century. It features limewashed pebble-dash render with painted ashlar dressings, while the rear wing is constructed of rubble with quoins. The roof is covered with French roof tiles. The building has two storeys and two windows. On the right side, there is a plain stone surround framing a six-panel door, and to the left, there are 12-pane sash windows with broad glazing bars, including one on the first floor. A first-floor band runs along the façade. The ground-floor wall extends to meet the Castle gateway and Castle Lodge. There is a post office letterbox with the monogram ERVII set into the wall on the left. The steeply pitched roof has a small square chimney at the right end, which features a top band. The right return of the building is blank, except for a small light to the left of centre on the ground floor, which has ogee broad glazing bars with two panes. At the rear, there is a one-storey pent outshut.
Local climate
12, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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