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Latitude: 54.6648 / 54°39'53"N
Longitude: -1.6804 / 1°40'49"W
OS Eastings: 420710
OS Northings: 530017
OS Grid: NZ207300
Mapcode National: GBR JGPH.ZK
Mapcode Global: WHC58.501Q
Plus Code: 9C6WM879+WR
Entry Name: 46 and 48, High Bondgate
Listing Date: 23 May 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1210079
English Heritage Legacy ID: 385682
ID on this website: 101210079
Location: Town Head, County Durham, DL14
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Bishop Auckland
Built-Up Area: Bishop Auckland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Bishop Auckland
Church of England Diocese: Durham
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BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2030 HIGH BONDGATE
634-1/7/49 (North side)
Nos.46 AND 48
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos 1 and 2 Railway Cottages.
Shown on OS as 1 and 2 Railway Cottages.
Railway cottages. c1857. For the North Eastern Railway Co.
Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof
with ashlar gable coping and brick chimneys.
2 storeys, 2 windows. Stone step up to partly glazed door at
left recessed under wedge stone lintel. Similar lintels to
12-pane sashes on ground floor and 9-pane sashes on first
floor with brick sill bands, painted below windows. Low
pitched roof on brick eaves band with brick corbelled cornice
and end brick corbels to gable coping. Large central chimney
stack and small left end stack, tapered square yellow pots
with ramped tops. Right return has small door and windows.
Especially interesting as unaltered examples of mid C19
railway workers' housing. Built for the Bishop Auckland branch
line which was begun in 1854 and opened in 1857. They are
associated with the tunnel from which the line emerges to
cross the Newton Cap Viaduct, which they overlook.
(Tomlinson W W: North Eastern Railway 3rd edition: Newton
Abbott: 1987-: 551, 556).
Listing NGR: NZ2071030017
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