Description

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ2129NW VICTORIA AVENUE
634-1/12/126 (South side)
20/09/72 Nos.13-23 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 11 houses with walls. c1880. Thin courses of
squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings.
Welsh slate roof with stone chimneys.
2 storeys, most houses 2 windows. 3 windows to Nos 19 & 23.
Quoins framing Nos 18 & 19 and at each end. Nos 13 & 14
project slightly. Segment heads to overlights of panelled
doors in stone doorcases of pilasters, most Tuscan, Nos 20 &
21 with crocket capitals, with frieze, cornice and blocking
course. Overlight spandrels panelled and keyed. Ground-floor
canted bay windows have slender pilasters and entablature to
plain sashes with shallow segmental heads. Similar first-floor
sashes, paired over bay windows, have chamfered jambs and
mullions to plain stone surrounds with roll-moulded heads and
sloping sills. Paired eaves gutter brackets. Hipped roof with
transverse ridge corniced chimneys, 3 inserted roof lights to
No.19. Door of No.23 at right blocked and window inserted,
right return has 3 windows.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: dwarf walls in front have chamfered stone
coping, railings removed.

Listing NGR: NZ2119229833

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491109

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)