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

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ2130 FORE BONDGATE 634-1/8/29 (North side) Nos.55, 56 AND 57

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.55 AND 56 FORE BONDGATE. Shown on OS as 55 and 56. House, now 2 shops and workshop. Early C18. Painted incised render with painted ashlar dressings and brick right return gable. Roof composition tiles with stone gable copings. 3 storeys, 3 windows, the left bay wider. Central renewed door and plain overlight in low ground floor, flanked by late C20 shops. Continuous C20 fascia possibly obscures earlier fascia. Plain sashes on upper floors recessed in render, sills of first floor concealed by fascia, second floor with painted projecting stone sills. Steeply pitched roof has end brick chimneys, front stone gable coping at right, both gables with moulded kneelers; right return gable shows brick edge of gable at steeper angle than coping. INTERIOR said to have large roof trusses; top floor out of use and said to be in poor condition (1991).

Listing NGR: NZ2101330087