Description

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ2130 MARKET PLACE
634-1/8/74 (North side)
21/04/52 No.29
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
No.29
The Grosvenor Club)

GV II

Shown on OS map as in Silver Street.
House, later club. Early C18. Rendered rubble with painted
plinth and ashlar dressings. Slate roof with rendered
chimneys.
3 storeys, 5 windows. Central double door and blocked
overlight in plain stone surround. Painted stone surrounds to
flanking boarded wide windows and 4-pane sashes on upper
floors, the 3 on second floor smaller, all with slightly
arched top lights. Steeply pitched roof has stone gable
copings on moulded kneelers, and end chimneys. Slates possibly
from Cumbria, a mixture of purple and grey. Right return shows
2-storey pent outshut. Said to have had Venetian windows on
ground floor. The heads may survive below render.

Listing NGR: NZ2117630171

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491094

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