The Market Building is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. Market building. 9 related planning applications.
The Market Building
- WRENN ID
- open-lancet-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Market building
- Address
- The Market Building, West Row, DL1 5PL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 288 144
- Coordinates
- 54.52467, -1.55512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Building was constructed in 1863 by Alfred Waterhouse. It is a two-storey structure with five bays, each bay featuring a separate roof ridge and a raised, glazed attic with louvred sides that rises from a low-pitched slated roof. The building has a cast iron framework with columns and brackets that support the eaves. The first floor is adorned with glazed round arcading, while modern shops occupy the ground floor. The west and north fronts, with the north side adjacent to the Clock Tower, have full-height basements, and many ground floor openings are blocked with entrances below. The west front features a central entrance with a double flight of stairs leading to a terrace above an arched basement entrance. On the north face, a quadrant flight of steps leads to a door positioned at the angle with the tower.
Local climate
The Market Building receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- 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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