Doric House

TUBWELL ROW 1. (South Side) 5195 Nos 37 and 37A (Doric House) NZ 2814 SE 8/397

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1. 1. Iron framed commercial building of 3 storeys and attic. Four windows, in the shape of one wide 3-window section and a narrow bay. Four round headed dormers in a high slated mansard roof with end and ridge stacks. Dark red brick facing. Most of front covered by a 2-storey oriel projection on cast iron brackets whose rows of 6 lights are framed in cast iron columns, with panels of cast iron ornament between them and between floors. First floor windows are round headed, with a guilloche patterned frieze above. At right a smaller oriel, triangular on 2nd floor plan, canted below, over a canted cast iron openwork hood above the door. Similar openwork, resting on slim columns, frames the shop windows. Cast iron cresting to roof. Plaque at lst floor describes the building as a unique example in Darlington of cast iron structure.

Listing NGR: NZ2896414476