6 AND 8, FRONT STREET
6 AND 8, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338616
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 6 AND 8, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6 AND 8, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338616
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 6 AND 8, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6 AND 8, FRONT STREET
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:
- 6 AND 8, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Staindrop
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 12913 20602
Details
STAINDROP FRONT STREET NZ 1220 (South side) 17/136 Nos. 6 and 8 14/9/66 GV II
2 houses with former shop. Late C18. Ashlar with coursed rubble plinth, asbestos-tiled roof with stone gable copings and stone and brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 2 wide bays. Steps up to partly-glazed doors at left of each bay; No. 8 at left has high segmental hood over lintel, incised to represent voussoirs, and moulded key; similar lintel over door of No. 6, C20 windows of No. 4 and first-floor French window of No. 6. Bowed oriel shop window in No. 6 has 3 rows of 4 panes under fascia and small cornice; bowed balcony of French window has simple wrought-iron balustrade. Roof has left gable coping on moulded kneelers; banded chimney at left of each house, that to No. 4 with offsets. Rounded corner, to door lintel level, to left return which has C20 ground floor window and first-floor balconied French window under flat stone lintels, and small 4-pane attic window. Steps to No. 8 have spiral-ended wrought-iron handrails on square-section uprights with central twists.
Listing NGR: NZ1291320601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111501
- 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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