18, 18A AND 20, KING STREET

18, 18A AND 20, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217834
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:
18, 18A AND 20, KING STREET
Statutory Address:
18, 18A AND 20, KING STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217834
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
28-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:
18, 18A AND 20, KING STREET
Statutory Address 1:
18, 18A AND 20, KING STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
18, 18A AND 20, KING STREET

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 05162 16647

Details

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516NW KING STREET 770-1/4/98 (North East side) 24/02/50 Nos.18, 18A AND 20 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET (East side) Nos.18 & 20)

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House, now 3 flats. Dated 1825. Rough cast render with ashlar plinth and dressings; roof not visible, stone parapet copings and brick chimney. 2 storeys; 3-window range, and narrow set-back bay linking to No.22 (qv). Step up to central panelled door and overlight to No.18 recessed in plain stone surround with cornice and blocking course. All windows have sashes with fine glazing bars. Projecting stone lintels to long sashes flanking door and to three on first floor, the outer ones with lower sills. 3 blind panels in roof parapet, the central with inscription: EDIFICATA JACOBO EWBANK/ AD MDCCCXXV. Roof not visible. Left end chimney with stone coping. Left return has door to No.20 in centre of blank wall; right return has door to No.18a at rear, and window above. Set-back right link to No.22 has central sash on each floor, the upper on sill band. On ground floor a lancet niche at right, 2 quatrefoil panels above, and above them a central obscured inscription apparently: `MEMOR ESTO BREVIS AEVI' on painted stone tablet. On the first floor single cross arrow slits either side of sash. INTERIOR: not inspected. No.20 was listed on 29.9.56.

Listing NGR: NZ0516216647

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Legacy System number:
388727
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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