Bay Horse Public House

Bay Horse Public House, 40, Fore Bondgate

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209685
Date first listed:
23-May-1994
List Entry Name:
Bay Horse Public House
Statutory Address:
Bay Horse Public House, 40, Fore Bondgate
Three-storey building with mock-timber frame to front gable. Brick to ground floor. Pitched roof.
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Date:
2001-04-03
Reference:
IOE01/03242/12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209685
Date first listed:
23-May-1994
List Entry Name:
Bay Horse Public House
Statutory Address 1:
Bay Horse Public House, 40, Fore Bondgate

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Bay Horse Public House, 40, Fore Bondgate

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 20922 30075

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on 20 June 2023 to include architect details and reformat the text to current standards

NZ2030
634-1/7/28

BISHOP AUCKLAND
FORE BONDGATE (North side)
No.40
Bay Horse Public House

GV
II

Public house. c1900, Frederick Howard Livesay (circa 1869-1924). Painted render with painted wood and brick bar front. Plain tile roof with brick chimneys. Free Vernacular-Revival style.

1:2 storeys, three windows. Bar front has five bays, the left of one storey, defined by scroll-topped pilasters, with recessed renewed door at left.Four windows on brick stall risers have segmental heads to lower lights, the central two tripartite, and upper glazing bars. Fascia between pilasters in all bays; cornice with scrolled pediments over pilasters. First floor has wide segmental pediment to central window with two casement lights with glazing bars; similar casements to flanking four-light windows with central two lights as canted oriels, each on single curved wood bracket. Similar casements to shallow wide four-light window in half-timbered gable peak, with carved wood brackets to half-timbering over window, and stepped bargeboards to big gable breaking through eaves. Roof has end brick chimneys.

Reconstruction of adjacent property at time of survey may continue over left bay single storey.

Listing NGR: NZ2092230075

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
385651
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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