Barclays Bank Barclay'S Bank And Attached Walls

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