23, HORSE MARKET
23, HORSE MARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210139
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 23, HORSE MARKET
- Statutory Address:
- 23, HORSE MARKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210139
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 23, HORSE MARKET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, HORSE MARKET
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:
- 23, HORSE MARKET
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 05005 16549
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516NW HORSE MARKET 770-1/4/86 (North East side) 24/02/50 No.23 (Formerly Listed as: HORSE MARKET (East side) Nos.21 AND 23 Blackett's Shop (21))
GV II
House, now shop. c1850 with C20 shop probably replacing earlier shop. Ashlar with rubble returns; roof has French tiles. Classical style. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Step up to 10-panel door and blocked overlight with 2 quadrant panels at right in round-headed arch with rusticated voussoirs in ground floor with channelled rustication. Stone plinth and rusticated quoins. Plate-glass windows to shop front filling remainder of ground floor under large fascia. 12-pane first-floor sashes in architraves under floating cornices on consoles; 9-pane second-floor sashes in lugged architraves. Rusticated quoins above first floor, and modillioned eaves cornice. Roof has corniced end chimneys in centre of front slope, with Tudor-style octagonal corniced chimney pots. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: plaque at left of building records it as the site of the old store house and hospital of the Durham Militia from 1759.
Listing NGR: NZ0501216556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388715
- 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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