59 AND 59A, GALGATE

59 AND 59A, GALGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201337
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:
59 AND 59A, GALGATE
Statutory Address:
59 AND 59A, GALGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201337
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
28-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:
59 AND 59A, GALGATE
Statutory Address 1:
59 AND 59A, GALGATE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
59 AND 59A, GALGATE

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 05181 16754

Details

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516NW GALGATE 770-1/4/54 (South East side) 24/02/50 Nos.59 AND 59A (Formerly Listed as: GALGATE (South side) Nos.53,55,57,59,59A Caroline Grove (59))

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Pair of houses, formerly part of larger house. 1760 with C19 alterations. Rough render with ashlar dressings; roof of stone slates and Welsh slate with stone ridge and gable copings and rendered chimneys. 2 storeys; 4-window range, with outer gabled bays; left gable is No.59A. 6-panel doors at right of left gable and under third window, the left with overlight in keyed round-headed surround with imposts, the right in plain stone surround with hood. Paired C19 windows on ground and first floors in left gable have 8-pane sashes, stop-chamfered stone mullions and flat stone lintels, and projecting stone sills. Single 12-pane sash in gable peak has flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill. Lower 2-bay central section has stone-mullioned canted bay window with low-pitched hipped roof at left; first-floor 18-pane sashes with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills above that and door, and keyed round-arched stair sash window at right with imposts and arched glazing bars. Right gabled bay, lower than the left gable, has canted stone bay with glazing bars and hipped roof, and 18-pane sash above. Left gable has stone coping on moulded kneelers; low-pitched right gable has stone coping, moulded kneelers, and ball finial. Roof has tall, wide, rendered end stacks. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: this was part of the home of William Hutchinson, historian of County Durham, in the C18.

Listing NGR: NZ0518116754

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Legacy System number:
388682
Legacy System:
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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