Old Bank Chambers
OLD BANK CHAMBERS, 45, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196573
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bank Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BANK CHAMBERS, 45, MARKET PLACE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03242/22
- Rights:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196573
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bank Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD BANK CHAMBERS, 45, MARKET PLACE
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:
- OLD BANK CHAMBERS, 45, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop Auckland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21188 30127
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2130 MARKET PLACE 634-1/8/77 No.45 20/09/72 Old Bank Chambers
GV II
Bank, now council housing office, with railings. c1860. Possibly for National Provincial Bank. L plan. Gothic Revival style. Snecked stone with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 windows with corner turret. Gabled porch at left has raised segmental arch over panelled door and blocked overlight, with a quatrefoil window above. Pierced trefoil in cusped bargeboards on paired brackets. At right, wide relieving arch over a triple plain sash stone mullion window with raised roll-moulded heads on nookshafts with stiff leaf capitals. First-floor sill string continues around round turret which breaks forward at left and has 2-light window on first floor with flat stone lintel and alternate block jambs, plus a high conical roof. 2 through-eaves dormers over paired cusped lights with plain sashes, sloping sills, chamfered mullions and blind quatrefoils in soffits. Paired shaped brackets support arched bargeboards with top pierced quatrefoils. Steeply pitched roof has right end chimney with sloping plinth and top cornice. Left return blind turret has one dormer. Low chamfered walls from porch to turret at left, and adjoining house which breaks forward at right, have twisted cast-iron railings with cross finials to principals and fleur-de-lys heads to dogbars framing pierced cast-iron panels. INTERIOR shows Gothic doors and stucco cornice, C20 partitions.
Listing NGR: NZ2118530124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385717
- 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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