5-12, Victoria Avenue

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