Commercial Hotel
COMMERCIAL HOTEL, 12, GALGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209569
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Commercial Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- COMMERCIAL HOTEL, 12, GALGATE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209569
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Commercial Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMMERCIAL HOTEL, 12, 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COMMERCIAL HOTEL, 12, 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 04971 16655
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0416NE GALGATE 770-1/3/17 (North West side) 24/02/50 No.12 Commercial Hotel
GV II
House, now hotel. Probably early-mid C18. Painted rough render with painted ashlar plinth and ashlar dressings; roof of composition tiles with ashlar gable coping and kneelers. 3 storeys; 3-window range. C19 door of 3-over-3 panels in stone surround of architrave with triglyph frieze and bracketed cornice. Elliptical vehicle arch at left; C19 canted bay window at right with 4-pane sashes, angle colonnettes and prominent cornice. Sashes with glazing bars on upper floors, 12-pane on first and 9-pane on second, have painted ashlar architraves. Steeply-pitched roof has renewed gable copings on narrow moulded kneelers; large end chimneys, of red brick at left and yellow brick at right. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: NZ0497016656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388646
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
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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