15 AND 16, MARKET PLACE
15 AND 16, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196608
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 15 AND 16, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 15 AND 16, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 2001-04-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/03242/01
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196608
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 15 AND 16, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15 AND 16, 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:
- 15 AND 16, 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 21288 30136
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2130 MARKET PLACE 634-1/8/66 (North side) 21/04/52 Nos.15 AND 16 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (North side) Nos.15-18 (Consecutive))
GV II
Shown on OS map as 2 and 3 Park Gate Houses. 2 houses. Early C18, on site of medieval college, with C20 alterations. Painted render with painted ashlar dressings. Concrete tile roofs with rendered chimneys. 2 storeys, 4 windows to each house, with segmental arched entrance at left to rear yard. Auckland Castle gateway wall (qv) breaks forward between 3rd and 4th windows of No.15. Door surrounds c1700 have lugged architraves with pulvinated frieze, No.16 with pediment, C18 doors have 4 fielded panels and 3-pane light inserted in place of top panels. C20 casements with glazing bars, 3 lights on ground floor and 2 above, plus 2 small fixed lights under 5th window. Roof hipped at right, with end and paired central ridge chimneys. INTERIOR of No.16 shows renewed close-string stair, and segmental arches, some blocked, along rear of first floor as if for connecting corridor.
Listing NGR: NZ2128830136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385708
- 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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