26, NEWGATE
26, NEWGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218099
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 26, NEWGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 26, NEWGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218099
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 26, NEWGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, NEWGATE
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:
- 26, NEWGATE
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 05183 16286
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516SW NEWGATE 770-1/6/137 (North side) No.26
GV II
House, later house, flat and shop. Mostly late C18, incorporating C17 and possibly C16 structure. Painted incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings, and right return rubble with quoins and ashlar plinth and dressings; roof of stone slates with stone ridge and chimneys. L-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range. Shop front at left has 4-panelled door and overlight with glazing bars to right of 3-light window with slender mullions, all in surround with panelled pilasters and plain fascia and hood. Blocks on pilasters formerly held richly carved terms (photograph in owner's possession). Plain sash above with painted flat stone lintel and sill. Similar sash at right on ground floor has flat sill, and lintel obscured by ogee bracket to first-floor canted oriel, which has angle shafts, plain sashes and prominent cornice. Low-pitched roof, hipped at left, has centre and right ridge chimneys with stone bands. Right return has 6-panel door towards rear of house under re-used inscription as lintel, possibly C17: `O REMEMBER MAN IS MORTALL'. 6-pane light to left of door and 4-pane sash above have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Small light high in wall of rear offshut with long catslide roof. Rear elevation shows 2-light C17 stone windows with chamfered surrounds and mullions. INTERIOR: wide splays to rear windows, and one with lead ties on cross bars. Ground-floor shop has stone fire surround at left with hollow-chamfered reveals. Ground-floor rear flat said to show beams. First-floor left room has blocked narrow window in right wall suggesting right bay an addition. HISTORY: Source of re-used inscription not known. Medieval hospital of St John the Baptist, founded c1230, stood on the opposite side of Newgate (Clack and Gosling 1976). (Clack: Archaeology in the North. App.A vi ... Barnard Castle: Durham: 1976-: 210).
Listing NGR: NZ0518316289
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388767
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Clack, , Gosling, , Report of the Northern Archaeological Society in Archaeology in the North, (1976), 210
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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