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Barclays Bank Barclay's Bank and Attached Walls

A Grade II Listed Building in Barnard Castle, County Durham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.5423 / 54°32'32"N

Longitude: -1.9233 / 1°55'23"W

OS Eastings: 405057

OS Northings: 516338

OS Grid: NZ050163

Mapcode National: GBR HH0X.DH

Mapcode Global: WHB4L.F3C4

Plus Code: 9C6WG3RG+WM

Entry Name: Barclays Bank Barclay's Bank and Attached Walls

Listing Date: 28 November 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1292243

English Heritage Legacy ID: 388729

ID on this website: 101292243

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

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Description



BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW MARKET PLACE
770-1/6/100 (East side)
No.1
Barclay's Bank and attached walls

GV II

Includes: No.2A Barclays Bank NEWGATE.
Bank with dwarf walls in front. 1878. By GG Hoskins. For
Jonathan Backhouse & Co. of Darlington. Jacobean style.
Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of
graduated slate. 2 storeys; 4:1:1-window range. Doors in first
and fifth bays. Step up to left door. Lombard frieze to sill
string of window above. Steps up to entrance in gabled fifth
bay. Diagonally boarded panels to both doors with stone
transoms to overlights in deep chamfered surrounds with flower
stops to dripmoulds. Mullioned-and-transomed window over right
door has raised dripmould over carved panel with JB monogram.
Vent slit in gable peak with foot and mid-pitch steps, and
stone leaf finial. Transomed windows in 4 left bays, taller
and with dripcourse on ground floor, on first floor on
sill-string and rising slightly through eaves under gablets
with roundels and stone leaf finials. Steeply pitched roof has
stepped stone gable copings and tall ridge chimneys with
ashlar plinths and moulded tops. Right return to Newgate in
similar style.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Walls in front have chamfered coping; railings removed. On
right return, piers to yard entrance have stepped ashlar
coping.
(Durham Archaeological Journal: Champman V: George Gordon
Hoskins... Part II: Durham: 1989-: 65).


Listing NGR: NZ0505816335

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