Description

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ2130 FORE BONDGATE
634-1/8/29 (North side)
Nos.55, 56 AND 57

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.55 AND 56 FORE BONDGATE.
Shown on OS as 55 and 56.
House, now 2 shops and workshop. Early C18. Painted incised
render with painted ashlar dressings and brick right return
gable. Roof composition tiles with stone gable copings.
3 storeys, 3 windows, the left bay wider. Central renewed door
and plain overlight in low ground floor, flanked by late C20
shops. Continuous C20 fascia possibly obscures earlier fascia.
Plain sashes on upper floors recessed in render, sills of
first floor concealed by fascia, second floor with painted
projecting stone sills. Steeply pitched roof has end brick
chimneys, front stone gable coping at right, both gables with
moulded kneelers; right return gable shows brick edge of gable
at steeper angle than coping.
INTERIOR said to have large roof trusses; top floor out of use
and said to be in poor condition (1991).

Listing NGR: NZ2101330087

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585129

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