14 (LEFT PART), MARKET PLACE
14 (LEFT PART), MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292205
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 14 (LEFT PART), MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 14 (LEFT PART), MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292205
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 14 (LEFT PART), MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14 (LEFT PART), 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:
- 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))
GV II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388736
- 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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