Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 6, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323244
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 6, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323244
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 6, MARKET PLACE
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:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 6, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27425 42531
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE MARKET PLACE NZ 2742 NW (East side)
9/221 No. 6 (Barclay's Bank)
GV II
Bank. 1887 by A. Waterhouse; extended 1924. Sandstone ashlar; roofs of banded purple and green slates over left 3 bays, graduated Lakeland slate over right 3 bays, with stone gable copings. Free Gothic style. 4 storeys and 3 bays; and 3 storeys and 3 bays. Second and fifth bays contain panelled doors and overlights, the left in Tudor-flower surround, under low-relief panels (BARCLAYS BANK; and BARCLAYS CHAMBERS on scroll) and dripmoulds. Ground-floor windows stone-mullioned-and-transomed, of varying numbers of lights from one to 4. Perpendicular tracery in first-and second-floor windows. 2-storey oriel in second bay has battlemented parapet. Top storey of left 3 bays has plain paired cusped lights. Drip strings; floor strings; bracketed shafts from fifth bay above first floor string. Central bay of each 3 has crow-stepped gable, that at left with large griffin holding wind-vane flag. Low-relief panels in gables have monogram at left, date 1924 at right. Top battlemented parapet.
Listing NGR: NZ2742542531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110273
- 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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