The Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Almshouse. 2 related planning applications.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- winter-courtyard-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2130 MARKET PLACE 634-1/8/80 Nos.49 AND 50 20/09/72 The Almshouses (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE Nos.49-52 (Consecutive) The Almshouses)
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.16-19 KING STREET. Shown on OS as 16-19 consecutive. 4 almshouses, now 2. Dated 1845. For Bishop Maltby, replacing almshouses built 1662 for Bishop Cosin. Tudor style. Coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and dressings, and porches with ashlar plinth; slate roof with ashlar gable copings and chimneys. 2 storeys, one window to each original house. Gabled porches with ashlar plinths, between each pair have boarded doors in stone surrounds in left returns, windows inserted in doorways on right returns, and front window under inscribed stone plaque in gable peak. Left plaque, partly eroded, JOHN COSIN BISHOP OF DURHAM AD 1662; right plaque ENLARGED BY EDWARD MALTBY BISHOP OF DURHAM AD 1845. Chamfered surrounds with long and short stones forming jambs to renewed 2-light casements flanking porch. Roofs have flat gable copings on moulded kneelers, with damaged finials to porches; conjoined ashlar chimneys on stone plinths and with ashlar cornices at ends and at centre of ridge. INTERIOR, partly inspected, shows all features renewed late C20.
Listing NGR: NZ2118430144
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