Trustee Savings Bank

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW MARKET PLACE 770-1/6/112 (East side) 24/02/50 Nos.21 AND 23 Trustee Savings Bank

GV II

House, later partly shop and offices, now bank and offices. Mid C18 with C20 bank. Coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and painted dressings; roof of Welsh slate with stone and brick chimney. Long rear wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 4-window range. Bank front has panelled end pilasters, 3 windows, high plinth and top entablature. Entrance at left leading to doors to yard passage to left and bank to right. Painted architraves to plain sashes on upper floors, those on top floor lengthened since C19 from square windows. Roof has right end chimney raised in brick. Rear shows broad glazing bars in windows of extruded stair wing. Rear wing on south side of yard of 3-storey, 4-window range and 2-storey (raised to 3), 2-window range, with square projecting bay window adjacent to front range. Plain stone surrounds, some tooled, to most 2-panel and half-glazed doors, and to sashes with 12, 6 or 4 panes, and ground floor left end casement in mullioned window and third bay 12-pane horizontal sliding sash. Architraves to 12-pane sash at left of second floor in 3-storey build. Some openings blocked. High corniced stone pier attached to left end of range. INTERIOR: low arch at rear of passage leads to enclosed first flight of stair; dogleg stair to upper floors has closed string, turned balusters, ramped grip handrail, panelled newels. Doors in upper floors have 4 fielded panels, panelled reveals and architraves. Dado rail to stair and some rooms; stucco cornice to one room. Window architraves. Rear wing, second floor, third room from front range, has broad glazing bars and bullion glass in south facing window, one pane with scratched message in form of a letter, dated 22 October 1788, signed W Porit. (Teesdale Buildings Preservation Trust: Rackham RA: Barnard Castle and Teesdale, A Victorian Perspective: Barnard Castle: 1988-: PLATE 6).

Listing NGR: NZ0505816407