21, Market Place

This is a mid-18th century house, now a shop, located on the west side of Market Place in Durham and Framwellgate. The building is constructed of English garden wall bond brick, with ashlar dressings and a rendered parapet. It has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping, and rendered end chimneys. The house is four storeys high and three bays wide. The ground floor has been altered. The upper floors feature late 19th-century sash windows with double-keyed architraves. Projecting stone sills are present on the first and third floors, with a sill band on the second floor. A stone-coped parapet tops the building. A gutter cornice juts out above a flat square drainpipe, and an ornamental rainwater head dated 1860 is located on the left side of the building.

Inside, a dog-leg staircase remains. The lowest flight has been altered, but the upper flights feature two vase-and-column balusters per tread, set on large square plinths. There's a ramped grip handrail with segmental links between the flights. Two-panelled doors are found on the top landing.