29, The Bank

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0416SE THE BANK 770-1/5/196 (West side) 22/02/73 No.29 (Formerly Listed as: THE BANK (West side) Nos.1-17, 23-29 (Odd) and The Old Well)

GV II

House, now shop and flat. Early C18 incorporating earlier fabric, with C19 and C20 alterations. Painted incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings; roof of stone slates with stone gable coping and chimney. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Left ground floor window enlarged at unknown date to plate-glass display window without features. Tooled painted stone surround at right to door now blocked and with 4-pane sash inserted. Central keyed architrave, originally a window, has half-glazed shop door and 5-pane overlight inserted. Similar keyed heads and plain jambs and sills to plain sashes on upper floors, those on top floor smaller. Cyma recta eaves gutter cornice. Roof has left gable coping on cyma-moulded kneeler; chimney at rear eaves barely visible. INTERIOR: wide elliptical stone lintel, possibly C16, in cellar; diagonal fireplaces in rear left corner on each floor; full-height bowed recess adjacent to fireplace, possibly formerly accommodating cupboard on each floor; dogleg stair with C17 door to roof space. Roof trusses have upper crucks with 2 levels of purlins.

Listing NGR: NZ0499116229