Description

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ2130 MARKET PLACE
634-1/8/80 Nos.49 AND 50
20/09/72 The Almshouses
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
Nos.49-52 (Consecutive)
The Almshouses)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.16-19 KING STREET.
Shown on OS as 16-19 consecutive.
4 almshouses, now 2. Dated 1845. For Bishop Maltby, replacing
almshouses built 1662 for Bishop Cosin. Tudor style. Coursed
squared stone with ashlar quoins and dressings, and porches
with ashlar plinth; slate roof with ashlar gable copings and
chimneys.
2 storeys, one window to each original house. Gabled porches
with ashlar plinths, between each pair have boarded doors in
stone surrounds in left returns, windows inserted in doorways
on right returns, and front window under inscribed stone
plaque in gable peak. Left plaque, partly eroded, JOHN COSIN
BISHOP OF DURHAM AD 1662; right plaque ENLARGED BY EDWARD
MALTBY BISHOP OF DURHAM AD 1845. Chamfered surrounds with long
and short stones forming jambs to renewed 2-light casements
flanking porch. Roofs have flat gable copings on moulded
kneelers, with damaged finials to porches; conjoined ashlar
chimneys on stone plinths and with ashlar cornices at ends and
at centre of ridge.
INTERIOR, partly inspected, shows all features renewed late
C20.

Listing NGR: NZ2118430144

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491098

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]