Barclays Bank Barclay's Bank and Attached Walls
BARCLAY'S BANK AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292243
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank Barclay's Bank and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAY'S BANK AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292243
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank Barclay's Bank and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAY'S BANK AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 2A, NEWGATE
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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:
- BARCLAY'S BANK AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 2A, NEWGATE
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 05057 16338
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516SW MARKET PLACE 770-1/6/100 (East side) No.1 Barclay's Bank and attached walls
GV II
Includes: No.2A Barclays Bank NEWGATE. Bank with dwarf walls in front. 1878. By GG Hoskins. For Jonathan Backhouse & Co. of Darlington. Jacobean style. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of graduated slate. 2 storeys; 4:1:1-window range. Doors in first and fifth bays. Step up to left door. Lombard frieze to sill string of window above. Steps up to entrance in gabled fifth bay. Diagonally boarded panels to both doors with stone transoms to overlights in deep chamfered surrounds with flower stops to dripmoulds. Mullioned-and-transomed window over right door has raised dripmould over carved panel with JB monogram. Vent slit in gable peak with foot and mid-pitch steps, and stone leaf finial. Transomed windows in 4 left bays, taller and with dripcourse on ground floor, on first floor on sill-string and rising slightly through eaves under gablets with roundels and stone leaf finials. Steeply pitched roof has stepped stone gable copings and tall ridge chimneys with ashlar plinths and moulded tops. Right return to Newgate in similar style. INTERIOR: not inspected. Walls in front have chamfered coping; railings removed. On right return, piers to yard entrance have stepped ashlar coping. (Durham Archaeological Journal: Champman V: George Gordon Hoskins... Part II: Durham: 1989-: 65).
Listing NGR: NZ0505816335
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388729
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chapman, V, Durham Archaeological Journal in George Gordon Hoskins JP, FRIBA Part 2, (1989), 65
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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