55, GALGATE
55, GALGATE
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Overview
- 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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- 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.
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:
- 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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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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