21, HORSE MARKET

21, HORSE MARKET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282701
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:
21, HORSE MARKET
Statutory Address:
21, HORSE MARKET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282701
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
28-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:
21, HORSE MARKET
Statutory Address 1:
21, HORSE MARKET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
21, HORSE MARKET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Barnard Castle
National Grid Reference:
NZ 05010 16541

Details

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516NW HORSE MARKET 770-1/4/85 (North East side) 24/02/50 No.21 (Formerly Listed as: HORSE MARKET (East side) Nos.21 AND 23 Blackett's Shop (No.21))

GV II

House, now shop. Early C19 with late C19 shop and late C20 alterations. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping and chimneys. 3 storeys; 2-window range. Full-width shop front incorporates former doorways to yard at left and house at right, now both recessed lights. Recessed central glazed door flanked by plate-glass windows on rock-faced stone stall-risers. Renewed fascia under plain cornice with folding canopy on hinged iron stays. First floor has 2 canted bay windows with bracketed cornice and flat roof. 4-pane sashes in these and in second floor projecting plain stone surrounds. Roof has right gable coping on quadrant kneeler, and tall end chimneys with top bands. INTERIOR: not inspected. No.21 listed 22.2.1973.

Listing NGR: NZ0501116542

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
388714
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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