Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW BIRCH ROAD
770-1/6/2 (North East side)
22/02/73 Entrance gateway to Dunelm Court and
No.1 Dunelm Court
(Formerly Listed as:
NEWGATE
(North side)
W Bdy Wall... to Entrance gateway to
Dunelm Court and No.1 Dunelm Court)

GV II

Gateway and lodge to former barracks of Durham Militia with
linking wall. Barracks demolished. Dated 1864. Snecked stone
gate and lodge with coped rubble plinth and ashlar dressings;
lodge roof of fishscale grey and green slates with stone gable
copings and stone chimney; wall snecked stone with ashlar
coping.
Gateway: Tudor style. 2 square turrets flank wide flat Tudor
arch with arms and mottos in high relief under stepped gabled
coping with central raised section. Turrets have narrow Tudor
open arches below inset panels of arms and insignia, and
battlemented parapets. High wall from left turret forms a
quadrant extending to the street front of No.1 Dunelm Court.
No.1 Dunelm Court of one storey, 3 windows; 2 sashes with
glazing bars, and at right a small square light with 4 panes,
are in chamfered stone surrounds. Roof has end gable copings
on corbelled block kneelers, and square central ridge chimney
with plinth and cornice. Right return has coped rubble plinth,
2 sashes and blind cross slit under gable. Inner face towards
Dunelm Court green has boarded doors at left and to right of
centre, a sash with glazing bars to right of first door, and a
3-light overlight in stone surround over second door.
Quadrant wall approx 2.5m high has gabled coping.

Listing NGR: NZ0537216340

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496808

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)