15 And 16, Market Place

Nos. 15 and 16 Market Place are two houses dating from the early 18th century, located on the site of a medieval college, with 20th-century alterations. They feature painted render with painted ashlar dressings and have concrete tile roofs with rendered chimneys. Each house is two storeys high and has four windows, with a segmental arched entrance on the left leading to a rear yard. The Auckland Castle gateway wall projects between the third and fourth windows of No. 15. The door surrounds, dating from around 1700, have lugged architraves with a pulvinated frieze, and No. 16 has a pediment. The 18th-century doors have four fielded panels, with a three-pane light replacing the top panels. No. 16 has 20th-century casements with glazing bars, featuring three lights on the ground floor and two above, plus two small fixed lights under the fifth window. The roof is hipped on the right, with end chimneys and paired central ridge chimneys. The interior of No. 16 includes a renewed close-string stair and segmental arches, some of which are blocked, along the rear of the first floor, suggesting they were once part of a connecting corridor.