Post Office
POST OFFICE, 48, NORTH BAILEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121434
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 48, NORTH BAILEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121434
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 48, NORTH BAILEY
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 48, NORTH BAILEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ2745642303
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
NZ 2742 SW
14/278
19.10.62
NORTH BAILEY
(West side)
No. 48 (Post Office)
GV
II
House, now Post Office. Early C18 house; late C19 shop. Incised stucco
with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick and rendered
chimneys. 3 storeys, 2 bays. Jacobean ornament on shop with pilasters
framing 4-panelled doors to house at left and shop at right. 6-paned shop
window has vertical glazing bars, with letter-box inserted at left, under
entablature with modillioned cornice on brackets. Late C19 sashes in wide
boxes on upper floors have projecting stone sills. Irregular eaves band.
2 end chimneys, rendered at left and new brick at right.
Listing NGR: NZ2745642303
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110330
- 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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