Description

NZ 2742 NW
9/231
19.2.70

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
MARKET PLACE
(West side)

New markets with left
entrance and rooms above

GV
II

Covered market and entrance bay. 1851 by P.C. Hardwick, for Durham Markets
Co. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of large Welsh
slates. Tudor style. 3 storeys and attic, one bay. Wide Tudor arch under
frieze with blind quatrefoil decoration. Stone mullioned-and-transomed windows
above, 3-light on first and second floor with relieving arches, and 2-light
in attic under gable on moulded kneelers with top fleur-de-lis finial.

Interior: slender Tuscan cast iron columns support pierced beams and slender
tied trusses, with glazed roof. Stone-vaulted at north end.

Listing NGR: NZ2737242559

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26413857

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Recommended Books

• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)