6, 6A, 6B, 8 AND 8A, MARKET PLACE

This building, located at 6, 6A, 6B, 8 and 8A Market Place in Barnard Castle, dates back to around 1700 and has been adapted into two shops and three flats, with late 19th-century shop fronts. It is constructed from coursed squared stone, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and chimneys. The building is three storeys high and has a six-window range.

The third bay includes a painted tooled stone surround for a low six-panel door and overlight, while the fourth bay has a distorted painted lintel above another six-panel door with early 19th-century glazing bars. The sixth bay features a yard entrance with a six-panel door and overlight, showcasing radiating glazing bars within a keyed stone surround that has impost blocks.

The left shop front has a central recessed entrance flanked by slender Ionic colonnettes supporting two-light windows, topped with a cornice on a narrow fascia. The right shop front has a round-arched entrance on the left with a recessed door and a two-light window, all beneath a modillioned entablature. All windows have architraves, with plain sashes on the first floor and small casements on the second. The steeply pitched roof is adorned with gable copings resting on moulded kneelers, slightly swept eaves, and end chimneys, while a wide rear chimney rises from the right side of the roof.

Inside, the cellar of shop No. 8A features a 17th-century stone fire surround with a flat pointed arch, which houses a 19th-century cast-iron kitchen range marked with "LOW MILL FOUNDRY" and "BARNARD CASTLE FOUNDRY." The interior also includes a dogleg stair with a grip handrail, and a keyed arch off the first landing leads to the first-floor flat, which has a six-panel door. The top floor flat contains circa 1700 doors with two large panels and one central narrow panel, featuring L-hinges. Additionally, there is a circa 1600 rail-and-stile panelled door in one room. The roof of the front range boasts massive pegged collared trusses, some of which have renewed collars, and two levels of purlins, with the ridge piece set on halved rafters that are cut to receive the lower rafters and shaped at the apex to accommodate the ridge piece.