Potting Shed and Garages West of Auckland Castle
POTTING SHED AND GARAGES WEST OF AUCKLAND CASTLE, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297646
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Potting Shed and Garages West of Auckland Castle
- Statutory Address:
- POTTING SHED AND GARAGES WEST OF AUCKLAND CASTLE, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
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- Date:
- 2002-05-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/06970/17
- Rights:
- © Mr Alan Bradley. Source: Historic England Archive
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297646
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Potting Shed and Garages West of Auckland Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- POTTING SHED AND GARAGES WEST OF AUCKLAND CASTLE, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
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:
- POTTING SHED AND GARAGES WEST OF AUCKLAND CASTLE, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
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 21271 30164
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2130 AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK 634-1/8/87 (East side (off)) Potting shed and garages west of Auckland Castle
GV II
Part shown on OS as 2 and 3 Castle Square. Ancillary ranges to Auckland Castle (qv), around east and north sides of yard to west of main buildings. Medieval use unknown; late medieval prebends' college. Carriage house alteration of north range. Now east range potting shed and north range garage and garden shed. C14 and C16; C18 carriage house and C19 shed. C19 and C20 alterations and additions including rebuilding of upper east walls and alteration of carriage house to garage. MATERIALS: east range has painted plinth and rendered rubble walls, with ashlar dressings on right return gable; similar materials to right return, with low shed against high rendered garage. Concrete tile roofs. EXTERIOR: east range has pronounced offset at door head level. Left bay, adjacent to passage and Westcott Lodge (qv), has wood door in plain reveals, glazing bars in 3 sections of tall window at right, then similar door and 2 similar windows. Right return gable has blocked early C16 window low in gable wall, with moulded spandrels to pointed-arched lights. Possible blocked tall opening above, evidence confused by patchy mortar. Tall round projection at right possibly oven flue. North range: 2 storeys, 5 bays. 2-bay pent shed under catslide roof has 2 wide fixed lights with glazing bars and with one panel opening. To right, a lower pent roof on 4 early C19 cast-iron columns, with end and central bays enclosed by rendered walls with 2-light casements with glazing bars. Low first storey above pent shed has 3 small square windows with Yorkshire sliding sashes. Within shed, wall of garage block obscured by shed is a mixture of rubble and squared masonry, obscured by patchy mortar, and shows wide pointed medieval arch with 2 mouldings, the outer wider, and blocked with rubble. C17 door loosely set against shed at right end has cock's head hinges, and flat panels in stile and rail frame. INTERIOR of east range shows medieval pointed arch head just above ground level on inner face of front wall in first bay, and stone basin in partition wall between this and next bay. C19 fire beam in end gable, detail of fire partly obscured by later piping. North range interior shows late medieval stone arch in wall adjacent to east range with moulded elliptical head, and pointed arch in north wall. (Raine J: History of Auckland Castle: Durham: 1852-: 100-101).
Listing NGR: NZ2127130164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385602
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raine, J, History of Auckland Castle Durham, (1852), 100-101
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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