National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 28, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201321
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 28, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201321
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 28, 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:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 28, MARKET PLACE
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 05014 16448
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516SW MARKET PLACE 770-1/6/118 (West side) 22/02/73 No.28 National Westminster Bank (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (West side) No.28 National Provincial Bank)
GV II
Bank. c1890. For National Provincial Bank. Ashlar with plinth and raised quoins; Welsh slate roof with slate hung dormers. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Ground floor has central round-headed door with vermiculated rustication to stepped high voussoirs; similar rustication to 2 round-headed renewed windows at left, and between plinth and window sill. At right, projecting square bay has similarly rusticated quoins and 2 pairs of plain windows. Continuous ground floor dentilled cornice. Projecting quoins to first floor which has 4-pane sashes in architraves; dentilled eaves entablature with modillioned gutter cornice. Roof has 4-pane sashes in 3 gabled dormers with pilasters and pediments, linked by blocking course. Left parapet pier joins adjacent parapet; right gable has stone coping. Corniced end chimneys. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: NZ0501416447
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388747
- 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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