30, Front Street

This is a mid-18th century house, later used as a shop. It is located on the north side of Front Street, Bishop Auckland. The front of the building is faced with ashlar, though the mortar joints have been re-pointed in the 20th century, obscuring their original appearance. The rear return wall is of rubble construction with brick patching. The roof has been renewed with pantiles and features stone gable copings and brick chimneys.

The building is two storeys high with two windows on the front elevation. The ground floor has a full-width bow shop front, which includes a metal roller shutter over the central renewed door. Flanking the door are curved windows with flat lights containing glazing bars that imitate an early 19th-century design. The shop front has plain, flat stall risers, a renewed curved fascia, and a simple cornice. The first floor has painted architraves and moulded sills to the sash windows, which contain glazing bars. There is also a moulded eaves gutter cornice. The roof has swept eaves, a stone gable coping on the left, and a left-end chimney constructed of one course of ashlar and raised in yellow brick.