13-23, Victoria Avenue

A terrace of eleven houses numbered 13 to 23, built around 1880 in Bishop Auckland. The houses are constructed of thin courses of squared sandstone, with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and stone dressings. They feature a Welsh slate roof and stone chimneys. Most houses have two windows to the front, with numbers 19 and 23 having three. Quoins frame numbers 18 and 19 and are also present at each end of the terrace. Numbers 13 and 14 project slightly forward. The panelled front doors are set within stone doorcases featuring pilasters; most are Tuscan in style, although numbers 20 and 21 have pilasters with crocket capitals, frieze, cornice, and a blocking course. The overlights of the doors have spandrels which are both panelled and keyed. The ground-floor canted bay windows have slender pilasters and an entablature, supporting plain sash windows with shallow segmental heads. The first-floor windows, which are paired over the bay windows, are plain sashes with chamfered jambs and mullions in stone surrounds, featuring roll-moulded heads and sloping sills. Paired eaves gutter brackets are also present. The roof is hipped, with transverse ridge corniced chimneys, and three roof lights have been inserted into number 19. The door to number 23 has been blocked and replaced with a window. The right return side of the building has three windows. Low dwarf walls with chamfered stone coping run in front of the terrace, although the original railings have been removed.