Number 51 Including Arch and Part of Wall at Rear
NUMBER 51 INCLUDING ARCH AND PART OF WALL AT REAR, 51, THE BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282721
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Number 51 Including Arch and Part of Wall at Rear
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 51 INCLUDING ARCH AND PART OF WALL AT REAR, 51, THE BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282721
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 51 Including Arch and Part of Wall at Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 51 INCLUDING ARCH AND PART OF WALL AT REAR, 51, THE BANK
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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:
- NUMBER 51 INCLUDING ARCH AND PART OF WALL AT REAR, 51, THE BANK
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 04966 16174
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0416SE THE BANK 770-1/5/201 (West side (off)) 22/02/73 No.51 including arch and part of wall at rear (Formerly Listed as: THE BANK Old arch and portion of wall at rear of No.51)
GV II
Formerly known as: No.51 St Mary's Mission Hall THE BANK. Mission Hall, now job centre. Dated 1901. For the parish of St Mary. C15 inscription and C16 arch in rear wall incorporated into 1901 building. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; rear older rubble with eroded ashlar fragments; roof of Welsh slate with grey ridge tiles and stone gable copings and chimneys. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Round-headed vehicle arch at right with voussoirs. Recessed double doors and semicircular 2-pane overlight at left of second bay in surround of rusticated pilasters and segmental cornice. Low segmental heads with voussoirs to cross-casements with upper glazing bars: 2 in first bay, one to right of door, and one in third bay to left of vehicle arch. Taller windows in similar style on second floor, paired in centre, rise through eaves under gablets, the central shaped and containing inscription stone in gable peak. Roof has plain gable copings and end chimneys and central truncated lantern. Rear of vehicle passage has moulded segmental arch at left, above that the eroded inscription, and to right of that in first floor a fragment of carved stone apparently a beak-head string with head corbels. Fragment of stone. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the ashlar inscription previously listed in isolation is described in Boyle's `Guide to the County of Durham' as being `in Surtees' day' set in an arch leading to the yard of a house in Thorngate' (the former name of The Bank), but in Boyle's time set in the rear of the house; these stones and another mentioned in the previous list supposedly read: `Ricardus/ Broun, Abbat cui a'i'e' p'picietur Deus'. According to Hutchinson the old house was perhaps the site of the Friary and Chapel founded in 1381 by the Austin Friars. (Boyle: The County of Durham: 1892-: 693-4; Clack: Archaeology in the North. App.A vi ... Barnard Castle: Durham: 1976-: 210).
Listing NGR: NZ0495916177
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388830
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Boyle, J R, The County of Durham, (1892), 693-4
Clack, , Gosling, , Report of the Northern Archaeological Society in Archaeology in the North, (1976)
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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