Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516NW HORSE MARKET
770-1/4/86 (North East side)
24/02/50 No.23
(Formerly Listed as:
HORSE MARKET
(East side)
Nos.21 AND 23
Blackett's Shop (21))

GV II

House, now shop. c1850 with C20 shop probably replacing
earlier shop. Ashlar with rubble returns; roof has French
tiles. Classical style. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Step up to
10-panel door and blocked overlight with 2 quadrant panels at
right in round-headed arch with rusticated voussoirs in ground
floor with channelled rustication. Stone plinth and rusticated
quoins. Plate-glass windows to shop front filling remainder of
ground floor under large fascia. 12-pane first-floor sashes in
architraves under floating cornices on consoles; 9-pane
second-floor sashes in lugged architraves. Rusticated quoins
above first floor, and modillioned eaves cornice. Roof has
corniced end chimneys in centre of front slope, with
Tudor-style octagonal corniced chimney pots.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: plaque at left of building records it as the site of
the old store house and hospital of the Durham Militia from
1759.

Listing NGR: NZ0501216556

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505184

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6