13 AND 14, HIGH STREET

13 AND 14, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121468
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
13 AND 14, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
13 AND 14, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121468
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1988
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Aug-2007
List Entry Name:
13 AND 14, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
13 AND 14, HIGH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
13 AND 14, HIGH STREET

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

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bishop Middleham
National Grid Reference:
NZ 33177 31513

Details

BISHOP MIDDLEHAM

1403/7/12 HIGH STREET 14-JUN-88 (North side) 13 AND 14 (Formerly listed as: HIGH STREET 12 AND 14 THE COTTAGE)

II House and 2 cottages, one now united with house. Early C18 with C19 alterations.

MATERIALS: Painted rough render with painted ashlar dressings; boulder plinth on right return. The roof has French tiles with stone gable copings and rendered and brick chimneys.

EXTERIOR: 2-storey range with 5 first floor windows. There is a 3-bay house at the left with a renewed central door in the panelled reveals of a flat Tuscan door case with a prominent cornice. c. 1900 square ground-floor bay windows with 4 front lights and one in each return, under top cornices. All of the windows have glazing bars and the 3 first-floor sashes have projecting sills. Attached to the 3-bay house there are 2 single bay cottages with similar sashes in the centre of each one-bay cottage and paired central doors (the left 3-panel) with overnights. The steeply pitched roof has right end gable coping on moulded kneelers, which supports a banded and rendered end chimney. There is a banded brick chimney at the left end and at the right of the third bay. The right return has a small, renewed first-floor window and a single throughstone in the gable peak.

INTERIOR: Not inspected

REASON FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: These C18 townhouses are designated for the following principal reasons:

* They display a good survival of historic fabric * Externally they are intact and possess much character * Two different forms of early C18 town house building are present Listing NGR: NZ3317731513

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
112218
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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