22, Market Place

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ2130 MARKET PLACE 634-1/8/69 (East side) 20/09/72 No.22 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (East side) Nos.20-22 (Consecutive))

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.11, 12 AND 13 KING STREET. Shown on OS map as 11, 12 and 13 King Street. House, subdivided into 3 houses. Late C17 with C19 alterations. Painted render on rubble, painted ashlar dressings, right return gable of thin bricks. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. 2 storeys and basements, 5 windows. C19 doors at centre of first 2 bays, at left of next wider bay, and at left of next 2 wide bays, each have 4 panels with studded surrounds, and plain overlights in doorcases of narrow pilasters and scroll-bracketed cornice hoods. Cellar openings, rising from below pavement under 2nd window and to right of 3rd window, have stone mullions and chamfered surrounds. Projecting stone sills and painted narrow architraves to 4-pane sashes, the top lights with flat-pointed heads, ground floor with 2 windows to first house and one to other houses, first floor 2:1:2. Steeply pitched roof has stone gable copings on moulded kneelers; 3 gabled dormers from eaves have vertical glazing bars to horizontal sliding sashes, and flat stone gable coping extending over shaped kneelers. 3 tall ridge chimneys.

Listing NGR: NZ2121430145