Teesdale District Council Offices Teesdale District Council Offices and Attached Walls

TEESDALE DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICES AND ATTACHED WALLS, 43 AND 45, GALGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1201069
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1973
Statutory Address:
TEESDALE DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICES AND ATTACHED WALLS, 43 AND 45, GALGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1201069
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
28-Nov-1994
Statutory Address 1:
TEESDALE DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICES AND ATTACHED WALLS, 43 AND 45, GALGATE
Statutory Address 2:
TEESDALE DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICES, KING STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
TEESDALE DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICES AND ATTACHED WALLS, 43 AND 45, GALGATE
Statutory Address:
TEESDALE DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICES, KING STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Barnard Castle
National Grid Reference:
NZ 05112 16708

Details

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516NW GALGATE 770-1/4/43 (South East side) 22/02/73 Nos.43 AND 45 Teesdale District Council Offices and attached walls (Formerly Listed as: GALGATE (South side) Nos.43 AND 45 Barnard Castle Rural District Council Offices)

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House, now local authority offices, with forecourt walls and piers. c1840 with c1930 addition on King Street front. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; slate roof with ashlar parapet and stone and rendered chimneys. C20 addition in C18 style. 2 storeys; 5-window range and 2+2+1-window range on right return. Steps up to 6-panel door and patterned overlight in plain stone surround with cornice. Sashes with glazing bars in plain stone surrounds. High roof parapet on eaves blocks. Low-pitched hipped roof has 2 long ridge chimneys, the left rendered and the right stone, with bands and tapered square yellow pots. Right return to King Street: the first build has 2 windows flanking the principal office entrance with panelled door under patterned overlight in Greek Doric doorcase of attached columns with entablature and blocking course. c1930 build to right is 2 storeys, 2-window, range with quoins; plain stone surrounds to central door and flanking sashes with glazing bars; roof has high parapet, raised over central carved panel with Council coat of arms. At right, lower wide bay with quoins has central well-cut Venetian window with keyed head, and plain sill apron. Eaves band stepped over window. INTERIOR: not inspected. Walls attached enclose forecourt and path from door to Galgate and have sloped stone coping, with chamfered coping to square piers; railings removed. HISTORY: plaque attached to No.45 says that this was the birthplace of Cecil Northcote Parkinson, the author who formulated `Parkinson's Law'.

Listing NGR: NZ0511216708

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