9A Market Place

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BISHOP AUCKLAND NZ2130 MARKET PLACE (South side) No 9A

(Formerly listed as No.9 (LEFT PART)

GV II

Formerly known as: No.15 MARKET PLACE. Shown on OS map as 15.

Offices, left part of club at time of listing. Dated 1873. Thin courses of squared stone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof. Gothic Revival style. Two storeys, five windows. Stone step up to panelled door and shaped overlight recessed in stone surround; moulded shouldered head on leaf-carved capitals of nookshafts with stiff leaf decoration which is repeated on recess to door. Plain sash windows, on ground floor in shouldered stone surrounds with alternate block jambs and projecting stone sills; on first floor with moulded surrounds and carved brackets to moulded sills which have cast-iron Gothic rails. Eaves gutter brackets on string. Roof has flat stone gable coping on moulded kneelers, and transverse ridge corniced chimneys. Rear elevation more elaborate with central canted porch containing door with six Gothic panels under pointed arch with carved stone dated 1873. Flanking sashes on both floors, the first with ball flower stops to floor string, and in ground floor canted end bays, have alternate block jambs and bar stopped chamfers. Decorative iron cresting to bay windows. Quatrefoil over central bay, trefoils in gabled end bays with shouldered kneelers to stone gable copings, the right with wrought-iron finial.

Listing NGR: NZ2124030088