Douglas House
Douglas House, 23 and 25, The Bank
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201311
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Douglas House
- Statutory Address:
- Douglas House, 23 and 25, The Bank
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201311
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Douglas House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Douglas House, 23 and 25, The Bank
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:
- Douglas House, 23 and 25, The Bank
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnard Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05000 16245
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 November 2021 to reformat text to current standards
NZ0516SW
770-1/6/191
BARNARD CASTLE
THE BANK (West side)
Nos.23 and 25 (Douglas House)
(Formerly Listed as: THE BANK (West side) Nos.1-17, 23-29 (Odd) and The Old Well)
22/02/73
GV
II
Inn, later two flats and public house, now shop and flat. Mid C18 with early and late C19 shop fronts, the earlier at left ex-situ. Irregular courses of squared stone with ashlar dressings; roof of stone slates with stone gable copings. Salvaged materials of various dates throughout.
EXTERIOR: three storeys; four-window range. Tooled stone surround to ex-situ six-panel door and overlight with radiating glazing bars in second bay. Inserted left shop front: Regency with entablature on slender pilasters framing threexthree panes to front and three on right return to recessed door; grid ventilator in stall riser has glass blocking. Right shop front late C19 with slender panelled pilasters and elliptical heads to central half-glazed door and flanking two-light windows; full-width entablature. Sixteen-pane sashes on upper floors, most renewed, and two-light renewed casement at top left, have tooled flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Second-floor windows almost square. Low-pitched roof has end chimneys. Rear shows small inserted two-light window with C16-type segmental stone heads; Gothic-style glazing bars to stair window between first and second floors.
INTERIOR: inserted ground floor ceiling at right, two spine beams at left plastered over and with added cornice. Stair first flight has winders, upper flights dogleg, with narrow handrail on re-set stick balusters and turned newels. First floor has c1800 shutters to windows; inserted C18 chimneypiece with bolection frieze, dentilled cornice and Delft tiles. Second floor has architraves to windows; three-panel door re-sited from attic of right part of house. Roof has halved pegged trusses with two levels of purlins.
Owner reports deeds say building was an inn in 1697; that there was a blacksmith in the rear in 1700, with vehicle entrance uphill in right part of the frontage, and that the building remained a public house until c1920 with two houses above. The shop front to left of facade was salvaged from a shop at the corner of Milburn Street and Hylton Road in the Millfield area of Sunderland; the door and overlight next to it came from Haggerston, Northumberland. Gazebo in rear yard constructed from salvaged materials including small stone lancet slits.
Listing NGR: NZ0500016247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388820
- 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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