14 (LEFT PART), MARKET PLACE

14 (LEFT PART), MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1292205
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1950
Statutory Address:
14 (LEFT PART), MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1292205
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
28-Nov-1994
Statutory Address 1:
14 (LEFT PART), MARKET PLACE

Location

Statutory Address:
14 (LEFT PART), MARKET PLACE

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 05012 16363

Details

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW MARKET PLACE 770-1/6/107 (West side) 24/02/50 No.14 (left part) (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (West side) No.14 King's Head (restaurant only))

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House, later part of King's Head hotel, now restaurant on ground floor and part of adjacent nursing home on upper floors. Late C18, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. Coursed squared stone with ashlar plinth, quoins and painted dressings; roof of thin slates. 3 low storeys; 3-window range. Central porch of tapered wood posts with cast-iron first-floor balcony to 6-panel door. Flanking canted bay windows have 16-pane sashes; painted stone surrounds to first-floor 16-pane sashes and second-floor 8-over-4-pane sashes. Low-pitched roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: plaque to right of door records that Charles Dickens stayed in this building in 1838 when it was part of the King's Head hotel and he was preparing `Nicholas Nickleby'.

Listing NGR: NZ0501216363

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388736
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