9A Market Place

9A Market Place is a building located in Bishop Auckland, originally known as No. 15 Market Place. It was constructed in 1873 and serves as the left part of a club. The building features thin courses of squared stone with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof, all designed in the Gothic Revival style.

It stands two storeys tall with five windows. A stone step leads up to a panelled door that has a shaped overlight set in a stone surround. The door is adorned with a moulded shouldered head supported by leaf-carved capitals of nookshafts, which also feature stiff leaf decoration echoed in the door recess. The ground floor has plain sash windows set in shouldered stone surrounds with alternate block jambs and projecting stone sills. The first-floor windows have moulded surrounds and carved brackets supporting moulded sills, which are fitted with cast-iron Gothic rails. Eaves gutter brackets rest on a string course.

The roof is finished with flat stone gable coping on moulded kneelers and has transverse ridge chimneys with cornices. The rear elevation is more elaborate, featuring a central canted porch that contains a door with six Gothic panels beneath a pointed arch, which is carved and dated 1873. Flanking sash windows on both floors include decorative elements such as ball flower stops on the first-floor string and alternate block jambs with bar stop chamfers in the ground floor canted end bays. The bay windows are topped with decorative iron cresting, while a quatrefoil adorns the central bay and trefoils are present in the gabled end bays, which have shouldered kneelers and stone gable copings, with the right side topped by a wrought-iron finial.