Latitude: 54.5423 / 54°32'32"N
Longitude: -1.924 / 1°55'26"W
OS Eastings: 405013
OS Northings: 516343
OS Grid: NZ050163
Mapcode National: GBR HH0X.7G
Mapcode Global: WHB4L.F313
Plus Code: 9C6WG3RG+W9
Entry Name: 6, 6A, 6B, 8 and 8A, Market Place
Listing Date: 29 September 1954
Last Amended: 28 November 1994
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1201355
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388733
ID on this website: 101201355
Location: Startforth, County Durham, DL12
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Barnard Castle
Built-Up Area: Barnard Castle
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Barnard Castle with Whorlton
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Building
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516SW MARKET PLACE
770-1/6/104 (West side)
29/09/54 Nos.6, 6A, 6B, 8 AND 8A
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(West side)
Nos.6 & 8)
GV II*
House, now 2 shops and 3 flats. c1700, with late C19 shops.
Coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and dressings; roof
Welsh slate with stone gable copings and stone chimneys. 3
storeys; 6-window range. Painted tooled stone surround to low
6-panel door and overlight in third bay; distorted painted
lintel to 6-panel door and overlight with early C19 glazing
bars in fourth bay. Sixth bay has yard entrance with 6-panel
door and overlight with radiating glazing bars in keyed stone
surround with impost blocks. Left shop front has central
recessed entrance and slender Ionic colonnettes to 2-light
windows; cornice on narrow fascia. Right shop front has
round-arched heads to left entrance with recessed door, and
2-light window, under modillioned entablature. Architraves to
all windows, plain sashes on first floor and small casements
on second. Steeply pitched roof has gable copings resting on
moulded kneelers, slightly swept eaves, and end chimneys; wide
rear chimney rising from rear roof at right.
INTERIOR: cellar of shop No.8A at right has C17 stone fire
surround with flat pointed arch, in which is set a C19
cast-iron kitchen range with founder's marks: `LOW MILL
FOUNDRY' with heraldic device of deer and tree, on boiler, and
`PATENT W SMITH JNR'; 'BARNARD CASTLE FOUNDRY' on oven. Dogleg
stair with grip handrail; keyed arch off first landing gives
access to to first-floor flat, with 6-panel door. Top floor
flat has c1700 doors of 2 large and one central narrow panel,
with L-hinges. c1600 rail-and-stile panelled door in one room.
Roof of front range has massive pegged collared trusses, with
some collars renewed, and two levels of purlins; ridge piece
set on halved rafters, the uppermost with L-shaped cut to
receive the lower, and cut away at apex to receive ridge
piece.
Listing NGR: NZ0501116344
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