10 and 12, Market Place is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. House, commercial. 2 related planning applications.
10 and 12, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- open-plinth-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- House, commercial
- Address
- 10 and 12, Market Place, Barnard Castle, DL12 8ND
- OS grid reference
- NZ 050 163
- Coordinates
- 54.54244, -1.92402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
10 and 12 Market Place is a house that has been converted into two shops and flats. It dates from the early 18th century, with a 17th-century rear building and a shop front added around 1900. The exterior features painted incised stucco with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. The building stands three storeys high and has a three-plus-two window arrangement.
The shop front on the left includes a central door and three top lights above each window, showcasing good quality stained glass. The stall risers are made of glazed tiles, and the windows have jewelled mullions, with a fascia supported by long brackets on end pilasters. To the right, there is a low six-panel yard-passage door set in a tooled stone surround. The shop on the right features restored 18th-century-style house windows, with painted stone surrounds and sashes that include glazing bars.
On the upper floors, the plain sashes are framed in architraves, with those on the second floor being slightly smaller and positioned just below a modillioned eaves cornice decorated with acanthus motifs. The building has alternately projecting quoins and a steeply pitched roof with gable copings resting on moulded kneelers, along with end chimneys.
The rear wing of the building is currently disused and derelict, containing a transverse rear block that displays some blocked 17th or early 18th-century stone mullioned windows. Inside, the front range has a rear arched beam, possibly related to a fireplace, though its connection to the structure is unclear. The rear wing features an 18th-century stone kitchen fireplace, which is partly blocked, and has raised and fielded panels on the side cupboards, along with a window seat next to a blocked 18th-century window. The roof includes collared trusses rising from the walls, with two levels of purlins.
Local climate
10 and 12, Market Place receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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