The Square
THE SQUARE, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322729
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Square
- Statutory Address:
- THE SQUARE, 1 AND 2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322729
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SQUARE, 1 AND 2
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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:
- THE SQUARE, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rokeby
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 08615 13133
Details
NZ 0813 ROKEBY GRETA BRIDGE
14/132 The Square 12.1.67 (Nos. 1 & 2)
GV II
Pair of houses, formerly The George Inn. Several mid- and later-C18 builds, incorporating earlier fabric. Rubble with tooled-and-margined dressings, except for squared stone porch; C20 hardrow tile roof. L-plan with extruded canted porch in angle.
No. 1 (facing east) 2 storeys on basement, 3 bays. 6 steps up to central fielded-panel double doors in surround with Doric pilasters and pediment. Renewed 12-pane sash above, old 12-pane sashes in right bay. Left bay, partly behind added porch, shows blocked 1st floor stone-surround window. Roof hipped to right; banded ridge stack. Right return shows slab plinth, impost band to round-arched recess with 12-pane sash, and similar 1st floor window.
Porch, former post office, has renewed glazed door with radial fanlight in round arch with imposts, 12-pane sash window with flat-arched lintel on 1st floor and semi-pyramidal roof.
No. 2 (facing north) 3 storeys, 3 + 3 bays. Right part has central 6-panel door and 3-pane overlight in architrave; 12-pane sash windows. Left part, set slightly forward, is former coach house: impost band to round-arched arcade holding boarded double doors; 6-pane sashes to upper floors. Roof hipped to left, with 2 banded ridge stacks.
Rear of No. 1 six irregular bays. 12-pane sashes to upper floors, five 12-pane and one 4-pane Yorkshire sashes to basement; irregular quoining of older building visible near right end. Rear of No. 2 shows various 6- and 12-pane sashes. All windows in stone surrounds.
Interior of No. 1: Dog-leg closed-string stair with column-on-vase balusters, moulded newels and ramped moulded handrail. C18 fireplaces in basement; C19 dumb waiter. An internal cross wall 1.2 metre thick corresponds to the quoining on the rear elevation.
Historical note: Dickens may have stayed at The George in 1838 while writing 'Nicholas Nickleby'; he introduces the Inn into the story.
Late C20 sun-lounge extension at south end of No. 1 is not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ0861513133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111722
- 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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