55, GALGATE

55, GALGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282842
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1973
List Entry Name:
55, GALGATE
Statutory Address:
55, GALGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282842
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
28-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:
55, GALGATE
Statutory Address 1:
55, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
55, 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 05157 16738

Details

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516NW GALGATE 770-1/4/51 (South East side) 22/02/73 No.55 (Formerly Listed as: GALGATE (South side) Nos.53,55,57,59,59A (Odd))

GV II

House, formerly part of larger complex. 1760 with C19 alterations. Rough render with ashlar quoins and dressings, some painted; roof of synthetic plain tiles with stone gable copings and rendered chimneys. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Gabled left bay and lower right bay. 6-panel door at left of right bay in C19 stop-chamfered corniced stone surround. At left, C19 ashlar canted bay window has shallow segmental heads with cornice and blocking course. Similar head to single narrow sash above in plain stone surround with projecting stone sill. At right, keyed round-arched surround with imposts to tall stair sash with round-arched glazing bars. Central and left ridge chimneys. INTERIOR: ramped staircase handrail visible in stair window. HISTORY: this was part of the home of William Hutchinson, the historian of County Durham, in the late C18. (Heritage Series, Discovery Guides: Tallantire W L: Barnard Castle: Middleton-in-Teesdale: 1988-: 10).

Listing NGR: NZ0515716738

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
388679
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Tallantire, W L, Heritage Series Discovery Guides in Barnard Castle Middleton in Teesdale, (1988), 10

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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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