Former Pub, Market Place, Shildon
Market Place, Shildon, County Durham
Assessment
Pilgrimage Score
An artistic and experiential assessment, not a feasibility verdict.
Acquisition cost, restrictions, availability, intervention freedom, access and practical risk will be assessed separately.
Judgement
The Clerk's Assessment
A serious Clerky proposition. The appeal is scale: roughly 3,477 sq ft, a former function room and pub spaces capable of becoming a dramatic sequence of rooms. It lacks the architectural distinction and landscape charge of St Mary-le-Bow, but it has genuine volume and adaptive-reuse potential at the top edge of the target budget. Worth viewing if the price can be held close to £70,000.
Structured Record
Property
Commercial
- Asking / Guide Price
- £70,000
- Estimated Acquisition
- —
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Status
- Investigating
- Auction / Closing
- —
Building
- Type
- Chapel
- Use
- —
- Floor Area
- 3,477 sq ft
- Land
- —
- Date / Period
- —
- Listed
- Not Listed
- Condition
- Good
Geography
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Search Area
- Willington / County Durham
- Distance
- 7 miles
- Setting
- Town
- Nearest Settlement
- Shildon
Due Diligence
Practical
Planning Position
Development opportunity subject to planning. Marketing suggests retail, commercial or potentially residential conversion/development.
Immediate Risks
Guide is offers in excess of £70,000, so acquisition could exceed Clerky budget. Full building survey and planning review needed.
Context
Place & Access
Landscape / Setting
Urban Shildon town-centre setting with industrial railway-town character.
Evidence
Images, Plans & Documents
Property photographs and site images will live here.
Floor plans, site plans and sketches will live here.
Sales particulars, heritage records and supporting documents will live here.
Provenance
Source Material
- Agent / Auctioneer
- Portfolio Lets Limited
- Date First Seen
- 12/09/2026
- Original Listing
- Open source listing
Working Record
Case Notes
Clerky Case 003. Former pub in Market Place, Shildon. Freehold, vacant, approximately 3,477 sq ft with rear yard, former function room and significant conversion potential subject to consents.