Old Bank Chambers

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ2130 MARKET PLACE 634-1/8/77 No.45 20/09/72 Old Bank Chambers

GV II

Bank, now council housing office, with railings. c1860. Possibly for National Provincial Bank. L plan. Gothic Revival style. Snecked stone with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 windows with corner turret. Gabled porch at left has raised segmental arch over panelled door and blocked overlight, with a quatrefoil window above. Pierced trefoil in cusped bargeboards on paired brackets. At right, wide relieving arch over a triple plain sash stone mullion window with raised roll-moulded heads on nookshafts with stiff leaf capitals. First-floor sill string continues around round turret which breaks forward at left and has 2-light window on first floor with flat stone lintel and alternate block jambs, plus a high conical roof. 2 through-eaves dormers over paired cusped lights with plain sashes, sloping sills, chamfered mullions and blind quatrefoils in soffits. Paired shaped brackets support arched bargeboards with top pierced quatrefoils. Steeply pitched roof has right end chimney with sloping plinth and top cornice. Left return blind turret has one dormer. Low chamfered walls from porch to turret at left, and adjoining house which breaks forward at right, have twisted cast-iron railings with cross finials to principals and fleur-de-lys heads to dogbars framing pierced cast-iron panels. INTERIOR shows Gothic doors and stucco cornice, C20 partitions.

Listing NGR: NZ2118530124