Castle Wall Including Market Lodge, Gateway and Bus Shelter
CASTLE WALL INCLUDING MARKET LODGE, GATEWAY AND BUS SHELTER, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232029
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Wall Including Market Lodge, Gateway and Bus Shelter
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE WALL INCLUDING MARKET LODGE, GATEWAY AND BUS SHELTER, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232029
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Wall Including Market Lodge, Gateway and Bus Shelter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE WALL INCLUDING MARKET LODGE, GATEWAY AND BUS SHELTER, MARKET PLACE
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:
- CASTLE WALL INCLUDING MARKET LODGE, GATEWAY AND BUS SHELTER, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanhope
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 99649 39143
Details
STANHOPE MARKET PLACE NY 9939 (West side) Stanhope 34/237 Castle wall including Market Lodge, gateway and bus shelter GV II Lodge, now office, wall, gateway and shelter, now bus shelter, and room over; Circa 1823 and shelter dated 1875. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roofs. Rear wall to castle, breaking forward at left at an oblique angle along frontage of Market Place, the left end continuous with 2- and one-storey 2-bay lodge now office; right end 2-storey, one-bay shelter and room over. Boarded double vehicle doors in moulded Tudor-arched gateway; buttressed wall with battlemented parapet, stepped over gate, and roll-moulded crenellations. Lodge at left has plinth and quoins; central door in chamfered round-cornered surround with drip mould; sloping sills and recessed chamfered surrounds to flanking ground-floor windows and to first-floor window in left bay. First-floor string; battlemented parapet continuous over right return gable.
Right end shelter in similar style has angle buttresses flanking boarded door in square-headed surround, and first-floor pierced and bracketed stone balcony. Square-headed blocked doorway behind balcony. Dated shield below battlemented parapet.
Listing NGR: NY9964939143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406915
- 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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