55,55A,55B AND 57, FORE BONDGATE

This building, located at 55, 55A, 55B, and 57 Fore Bondgate in Bishop Auckland, is a former house now serving as two shops and a workshop. It dates from the early 18th century and features painted incised render with painted ashlar dressings, along with a brick gable on the right side. The roof is covered with composition tiles and has stone gable copings.

The structure is three storeys high with three windows, the left bay being wider than the others. The central entrance on the ground floor has a renewed door and a plain overlight, flanked by late 20th-century shop fronts. A continuous fascia, likely obscuring an earlier one, runs across the front. The upper floors have plain sash windows set back in the render, with the first-floor sills concealed by the fascia and the second-floor featuring painted projecting stone sills. The steeply pitched roof has end brick chimneys and front stone gable coping on the right side, with both gables displaying moulded kneelers. The right return gable shows the brick edge at a steeper angle than the coping.

The interior is reported to have large roof trusses, but the top floor is currently out of use and said to be in poor condition as of 1991.