NOS 4 TO 16 (EVEN) AND THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL ABOVE SHOPS

NOS 4 TO 16 (EVEN) AND THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL ABOVE SHOPS, 16, NORTHGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1310393
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: NOS 4 TO 16 (EVEN) AND THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL ABOVE SHOPS
Statutory Address:: NOS 4 TO 16 (EVEN) AND THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL ABOVE SHOPS, 16, NORTHGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1310393
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: NOS 4 TO 16 (EVEN) AND THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL ABOVE SHOPS
Statutory Address 1:: NOS 4 TO 16 (EVEN) AND THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL ABOVE SHOPS, 16, NORTHGATE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NOS 4 TO 16 (EVEN) AND THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL ABOVE SHOPS, 16, NORTHGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 28929 14623

Details

NORTHGATE 1. (East Side) 5195 Nos 4 to 16 (even) and the King's Head Hotel above shops NZ 2814 NE 7/339

II

2. 1893. Robust late Victorian facade of 3 storeys and attic, 7 bays, the northern bay being a 4-storey tower and having a low, 3-storey half-bay beyond, holding the former yard gateway. Red brick with terra-cotta dressings. Very steeply pitched roof of graduated Lakeland slates with brick ridge stacks. Roof projects slightly in a hip over each bay but the 3rd and 6th. Attic windows in elaborate shaped gables with Dutch Renaissance type Orders and fan-moulded pediments. Enriched top entablature rests on brick giant pilasters with terra-cotta capitals. Balustraded balconies of 2nd floor windows rest on 1st floor oriels with curved sides, some of them linked by balconies and all richly dressed. Ground floor modern shops.

Listing NGR: NZ2892914623

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Legacy System number:: 110670
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.