Description

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ2130 MARKET PLACE
634-1/8/69 (East side)
20/09/72 No.22
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(East side)
Nos.20-22 (Consecutive))

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.11, 12 AND 13 KING STREET.
Shown on OS map as 11, 12 and 13 King Street.
House, subdivided into 3 houses. Late C17 with C19
alterations. Painted render on rubble, painted ashlar
dressings, right return gable of thin bricks. Welsh slate roof
with stone gable copings and brick chimneys.
2 storeys and basements, 5 windows. C19 doors at centre of
first 2 bays, at left of next wider bay, and at left of next 2
wide bays, each have 4 panels with studded surrounds, and
plain overlights in doorcases of narrow pilasters and
scroll-bracketed cornice hoods. Cellar openings, rising from
below pavement under 2nd window and to right of 3rd window,
have stone mullions and chamfered surrounds. Projecting stone
sills and painted narrow architraves to 4-pane sashes, the top
lights with flat-pointed heads, ground floor with 2 windows to
first house and one to other houses, first floor 2:1:2.
Steeply pitched roof has stone gable copings on moulded
kneelers; 3 gabled dormers from eaves have vertical glazing
bars to horizontal sliding sashes, and flat stone gable coping
extending over shaped kneelers. 3 tall ridge chimneys.

Listing NGR: NZ2121430145

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491089

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)