Baliol Street Name Plate Numbers 56 and 58 and Attached Stone Baliol Street Name Plate and Yard Wall
BALIOL STREET NAME PLATE, BALLIOL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292403
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Baliol Street Name Plate Numbers 56 and 58 and Attached Stone Baliol Street Name Plate and Yard Wall
- Statutory Address:
- BALIOL STREET NAME PLATE, BALLIOL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292403
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Baliol Street Name Plate Numbers 56 and 58 and Attached Stone Baliol Street Name Plate and Yard Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALIOL STREET NAME PLATE, BALLIOL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBERS 56 AND 58 AND ATTACHED STONE BALIOL STREET NAME PLATE AND YARD WALL, 56 AND 58, GALGATE
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:
- BALIOL STREET NAME PLATE, BALLIOL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 56 AND 58 AND ATTACHED STONE BALIOL STREET NAME PLATE AND YARD WALL, 56 AND 58, GALGATE
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 05113 16757
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516NW GALGATE 770-1/4/52 (North West side) 22/02/73 Nos.56 AND 58 and attached stone Baliol Street name plate and yard wall (Formerly Listed as: GALGATE (North side) (Even) 56-62) (Formerly Listed as: BALLIOL STREET Street name plate)
GV II
Pair of houses with yard wall to rear. c1840. Rubble with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; graduated purple slate roofs with stone gable copings, ridge and chimneys. Yard wall rubble with stone coping. Tudor style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range. Stone steps in outer bays to doors with pointed heads to boarded panels, elaborate hinges and overlights in chamfered stone surrounds. Overlight of No.56 has lattice glazing bars. Full-height square bay windows in inner bays have stone mullions, 2 lights to front, and plain sashes, and rise through eaves under steep gables. All windows deeply recessed and chamfered. Steeply pitched roof has gable coping rising to square end chimneys with cornices; transverse central chimney also corniced. Right return has ashlar street name plate, late C18, with high-quality inscription: 'BALIOL STREET' (sic) in Roman capitals; long stair window to left of centre; paired lights on each floor towards rear, with lattice glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: yard wall of rubble with dressed stone coping, approx2m high, joins slope of house offshut and has boarded door under thin wood lintel.
Listing NGR: NZ0511316757
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388680
- 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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