26, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. House, shop, offices. 1 related planning application.
26, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- lesser-moulding-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- House, shop, offices
- Address
- 26, Market Place, Barnard Castle, DL12 8NB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 050 164
- Coordinates
- 54.54318, -1.92401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 Market Place is a house that has been converted into a shop and offices. It dates from the mid-18th century and was altered in the mid-19th century, with further changes made around 1980. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and has a Welsh slate roof. It stands three storeys tall and features a two-window range.
The central shop entrance includes a step up to a half-glazed door, which is flanked by Tuscan columns. To the right, there is a yard-passage door with a glazed door and a plain overlight. The ground-floor shop windows were modified around 1975. The building has canted oriel windows supported by convex brackets, with slender mullions, all beneath a full-width fascia and pent roof. These oriel windows rise as stone canted bay windows, which also create a hood over the shop entrance. The bays have convex sides and plain sash windows, with the top-floor windows being smaller. The building features an eaves band and a coped roof parapet, while the low-pitched roof has truncated end chimneys. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
26, 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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