46 AND 48, HIGH BONDGATE
46 AND 48, HIGH BONDGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210079
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 46 AND 48, HIGH BONDGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 46 AND 48, HIGH BONDGATE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210079
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 46 AND 48, HIGH BONDGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 46 AND 48, HIGH BONDGATE
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:
- 46 AND 48, HIGH 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 20710 30017
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2030 HIGH BONDGATE 634-1/7/49 (North side) Nos.46 AND 48
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos 1 and 2 Railway Cottages. Shown on OS as 1 and 2 Railway Cottages. Railway cottages. c1857. For the North Eastern Railway Co. Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with ashlar gable coping and brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Stone step up to partly glazed door at left recessed under wedge stone lintel. Similar lintels to 12-pane sashes on ground floor and 9-pane sashes on first floor with brick sill bands, painted below windows. Low pitched roof on brick eaves band with brick corbelled cornice and end brick corbels to gable coping. Large central chimney stack and small left end stack, tapered square yellow pots with ramped tops. Right return has small door and windows. Especially interesting as unaltered examples of mid C19 railway workers' housing. Built for the Bishop Auckland branch line which was begun in 1854 and opened in 1857. They are associated with the tunnel from which the line emerges to cross the Newton Cap Viaduct, which they overlook. (Tomlinson W W: North Eastern Railway 3rd edition: Newton Abbott: 1987-: 551, 556).
Listing NGR: NZ2071030017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385682
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tomlinson, W W, History of the North Eastern Railway, (1967), 551,556
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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