2 Market Place
Spanish Gallery, 2, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7NJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297567
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 2 Market Place
- Statutory Address:
- Spanish Gallery, 2, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7NJ
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297567
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 2 Market Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- Spanish Gallery, 2, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7NJ
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:
- Spanish Gallery, 2, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7NJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop Auckland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21138 30060
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 June 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards
NZ2130
634-1/8/53
BISHOP AUCKLAND
MARKET PLACE (South side)
No 2
(Formerly listed as No.2 Barclay's Bank)
20/09/72
GV
II
Formerly known as: No.7 MARKET PLACE.
Shown on OS map as 7.
Bank. 1870. By GG Hoskins. For Backhouse & Company. Bright red brick with ashlar dressings and marble nookshafts. Welsh slate roof with brick and ashlar chimneys. Gothic Revival style. Three storeys, five windows. Painted plinth. Ashlar floor bands.
Ground-floor openings have raised segmental heads with polychrome voussoirs and roll-moulded dripstring; enriched arches on impost string; ashlar jambs with marble nookshafts, paired to renewed glass door in fourth bay, with clasping rings and stiff leaf capitals. Elaborate wrought-iron grille in door overlight. Steeply sloping sills on Lombard frieze between jambs. Similar impost strings and ashlar nookshafts to renewed upper windows. First floor has shouldered surrounds and raised square heads, and wrought-iron rails on moulded sills.
Second floor has bracketed moulded sills to smaller windows with segmental heads which rise to top cornice. Roundels in gablets above windows contain carved stone shields except in centre which has date 1870. Flower stops to dripmoulds over roundels; prominent mace finials to footstones and gablet copings. Steeply pitched roof breaks forward between end gables, with spirelets on front angle and three half-hipped dormers between. Gables have high end chimneys with ashlar plinth and cornice.
INTERIOR has entrance screen of three Gothic arches, other original partitions removed. Ceiling heavily moulded in continuous repeating pattern of flowers in linked circles.
(Durham Archaeological Journal: Chapman V: George Gordon
Hoskins JP, FRIBA Part II: Durham: -1988: 68).
Listing NGR: NZ2113830060
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385695
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chapman, V, Durham Archaeological Journal in George Gordon Hoskins JP, FRIBA Part I, (1988), 68
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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