Description

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ2129NW VICTORIA AVENUE
634-1/12/125 (North side)
20/09/72 Nos.5-12 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 8 houses, with walls and railings. c1870. Coursed
squared stone in thin courses, with ashlar plinth and
dressings.
2 storeys and attics, end houses 3 windows, other houses 2
windows. Panelled doors of varying patterns, some with Gothic
detail, all with overlights, in round headed doorcases of
attached columns with crocket capitals, and corniced lintels
with keyed dripstrings. No.9 has ALBERT HOUSE incised in stone
panel. Steps up to doors of Nos 10 & 11, No.11 with basement
window and No.10 with blocked basement area. All ground-floor
windows canted bays with bracketed sills, slender pilasters
and shallow segmental heads to lights. Nos 10 & 11 have
shouldered arches and hipped roofs to bay windows, 11 with
fishscale tiles. First-floor windows, paired over canted bays,
have chamfered surrounds and shouldered lintels with shallow
carved decoration. Gabled dormers, to all except No.12, have
similar windows and shouldered kneelers to stone gable coping.
Bracketed eaves gutter cornice, and roof with corniced
transverse ridge chimneys.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: dwarf walls in front of houses, railings
lost except to No.11 which has cast-iron railings to street.
Nos 10 & 11 have plain wrought-iron balustrades on steps.

Listing NGR: NZ2119429860

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513073

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)