5-12, VICTORIA AVENUE
5-12, VICTORIA AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218446
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 5-12, VICTORIA AVENUE
- Statutory Address:
- 5-12, VICTORIA AVENUE
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- Date:
- 2002-04-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/05751/20
- Rights:
- © Mr Alan Bradley. Source: Historic England Archive
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218446
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 5-12, VICTORIA AVENUE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5-12, VICTORIA AVENUE
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:
- 5-12, VICTORIA AVENUE
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 21194 29860
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2129NW VICTORIA AVENUE 634-1/12/125 (North side) 20/09/72 Nos.5-12 (Consecutive)
GV II
Terrace of 8 houses, with walls and railings. c1870. Coursed squared stone in thin courses, with ashlar plinth and dressings. 2 storeys and attics, end houses 3 windows, other houses 2 windows. Panelled doors of varying patterns, some with Gothic detail, all with overlights, in round headed doorcases of attached columns with crocket capitals, and corniced lintels with keyed dripstrings. No.9 has ALBERT HOUSE incised in stone panel. Steps up to doors of Nos 10 & 11, No.11 with basement window and No.10 with blocked basement area. All ground-floor windows canted bays with bracketed sills, slender pilasters and shallow segmental heads to lights. Nos 10 & 11 have shouldered arches and hipped roofs to bay windows, 11 with fishscale tiles. First-floor windows, paired over canted bays, have chamfered surrounds and shouldered lintels with shallow carved decoration. Gabled dormers, to all except No.12, have similar windows and shouldered kneelers to stone gable coping. Bracketed eaves gutter cornice, and roof with corniced transverse ridge chimneys. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: dwarf walls in front of houses, railings lost except to No.11 which has cast-iron railings to street. Nos 10 & 11 have plain wrought-iron balustrades on steps.
Listing NGR: NZ2119429860
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385763
- 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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