6, 6A, 6B, 8 AND 8A, MARKET PLACE
6, 6A, 6B, 8 AND 8A, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201355
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 6, 6A, 6B, 8 AND 8A, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 6, 6A, 6B, 8 AND 8A, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201355
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 6, 6A, 6B, 8 AND 8A, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, 6A, 6B, 8 AND 8A, 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:
- 6, 6A, 6B, 8 AND 8A, 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 05013 16343
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516SW MARKET PLACE 770-1/6/104 (West side) 29/09/54 Nos.6, 6A, 6B, 8 AND 8A (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (West side) Nos.6 & 8)
GV II*
House, now 2 shops and 3 flats. c1700, with late C19 shops. Coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and dressings; roof Welsh slate with stone gable copings and stone chimneys. 3 storeys; 6-window range. Painted tooled stone surround to low 6-panel door and overlight in third bay; distorted painted lintel to 6-panel door and overlight with early C19 glazing bars in fourth bay. Sixth bay has yard entrance with 6-panel door and overlight with radiating glazing bars in keyed stone surround with impost blocks. Left shop front has central recessed entrance and slender Ionic colonnettes to 2-light windows; cornice on narrow fascia. Right shop front has round-arched heads to left entrance with recessed door, and 2-light window, under modillioned entablature. Architraves to all windows, plain sashes on first floor and small casements on second. Steeply pitched roof has gable copings resting on moulded kneelers, slightly swept eaves, and end chimneys; wide rear chimney rising from rear roof at right. INTERIOR: cellar of shop No.8A at right has C17 stone fire surround with flat pointed arch, in which is set a C19 cast-iron kitchen range with founder's marks: `LOW MILL FOUNDRY' with heraldic device of deer and tree, on boiler, and `PATENT W SMITH JNR'; 'BARNARD CASTLE FOUNDRY' on oven. Dogleg stair with grip handrail; keyed arch off first landing gives access to to first-floor flat, with 6-panel door. Top floor flat has c1700 doors of 2 large and one central narrow panel, with L-hinges. c1600 rail-and-stile panelled door in one room. Roof of front range has massive pegged collared trusses, with some collars renewed, and two levels of purlins; ridge piece set on halved rafters, the uppermost with L-shaped cut to receive the lower, and cut away at apex to receive ridge piece.
Listing NGR: NZ0501116344
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388733
- 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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