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Latitude: 54.6658 / 54°39'56"N
Longitude: -1.673 / 1°40'22"W
OS Eastings: 421188
OS Northings: 530127
OS Grid: NZ211301
Mapcode National: GBR JGRH.L7
Mapcode Global: WHC52.8ZLJ
Plus Code: 9C6WM88G+8Q
Entry Name: Old Bank Chambers
Listing Date: 20 September 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1196573
English Heritage Legacy ID: 385717
ID on this website: 101196573
Location: Bishop Auckland, 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
NZ2130 MARKET PLACE
634-1/8/77 No.45
20/09/72 Old Bank Chambers
GV II
Bank, now council housing office, with railings. c1860.
Possibly for National Provincial Bank. L plan. Gothic Revival
style. Snecked stone with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh
slate roof.
2 storeys, 2 windows with corner turret. Gabled porch at left
has raised segmental arch over panelled door and blocked
overlight, with a quatrefoil window above. Pierced trefoil in
cusped bargeboards on paired brackets. At right, wide
relieving arch over a triple plain sash stone mullion window
with raised roll-moulded heads on nookshafts with stiff leaf
capitals. First-floor sill string continues around round
turret which breaks forward at left and has 2-light window on
first floor with flat stone lintel and alternate block jambs,
plus a high conical roof. 2 through-eaves dormers over paired
cusped lights with plain sashes, sloping sills, chamfered
mullions and blind quatrefoils in soffits. Paired shaped
brackets support arched bargeboards with top pierced
quatrefoils. Steeply pitched roof has right end chimney with
sloping plinth and top cornice. Left return blind turret has
one dormer.
Low chamfered walls from porch to turret at left, and
adjoining house which breaks forward at right, have twisted
cast-iron railings with cross finials to principals and
fleur-de-lys heads to dogbars framing pierced cast-iron
panels.
INTERIOR shows Gothic doors and stucco cornice, C20
partitions.
Listing NGR: NZ2118530124
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