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Latitude: 54.5424 / 54°32'32"N
Longitude: -1.924 / 1°55'26"W
OS Eastings: 405014
OS Northings: 516354
OS Grid: NZ050163
Mapcode National: GBR HH0X.8F
Mapcode Global: WHB4L.F311
Plus Code: 9C6WG3RG+XC
Entry Name: 10 and 12, Market Place
Listing Date: 24 February 1950
Last Amended: 28 November 1994
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1201356
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388735
ID on this website: 101201356
Location: Startforth, County Durham, DL12
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Barnard Castle
Built-Up Area: Barnard Castle
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Barnard Castle with Whorlton
Church of England Diocese: Durham
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BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516SW MARKET PLACE
770-1/6/106 (West side)
24/02/50 Nos.10 AND 12
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(West side)
Nos.10 & 12
King's Head (12))
GV II*
House, now 2 shops and flats. Early C18, with C17 rear
building and c1900 shop front. Painted incised stucco and
ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roof Welsh slate with
stone gable coping. 3 storeys; 3+2-window range. Shop front at
left has central door, 3 top lights to each window with good
quality stained glass, glazed tile stall-risers, jewelled
mullions, fascia on long brackets on end pilasters; low
6-panel yard-passage door to right in tooled stone surround.
Shop at right has restored C18-style house windows, with
painted stone surrounds and sashes with glazing bars. Upper
floors have plain sashes in architraves, those on second floor
slightly smaller and abutting modillioned eaves cornice with
acanthus decoration. Alternately projecting quoins. Steeply
pitched roof has gable copings resting on moulded kneelers,
and end chimneys.
Rear wing, disused and derelict, has transverse rear block
which shows some blocked C17/early C18 stone mullioned
windows;
INTERIOR: front range has rear arched beam, possibly for
fireplace, but relationship to structure obscured. Rear wing
has C18 stone kitchen fireplace, partly blocked, with raised
and fielded panels to side cupboards; window seat to adjacent
blocked C18 window. Roof has collared trusses rising from
wall, with 2 levels of purlins.
No.10 listed 29.09.54.
Listing NGR: NZ0501416354
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