Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516NW GALGATE
770-1/4/43 (South East side)
22/02/73 Nos.43 AND 45
Teesdale District Council Offices
and attached walls
(Formerly Listed as:
GALGATE
(South side)
Nos.43 AND 45
Barnard Castle Rural District
Council Offices)

GV II

House, now local authority offices, with forecourt walls and
piers. c1840 with c1930 addition on King Street front. Coursed
squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings;
slate roof with ashlar parapet and stone and rendered
chimneys. C20 addition in C18 style. 2 storeys; 5-window range
and 2+2+1-window range on right return. Steps up to 6-panel
door and patterned overlight in plain stone surround with
cornice. Sashes with glazing bars in plain stone surrounds.
High roof parapet on eaves blocks. Low-pitched hipped roof has
2 long ridge chimneys, the left rendered and the right stone,
with bands and tapered square yellow pots.
Right return to King Street: the first build has 2 windows
flanking the principal office entrance with panelled door
under patterned overlight in Greek Doric doorcase of attached
columns with entablature and blocking course. c1930 build to
right is 2 storeys, 2-window, range with quoins; plain stone
surrounds to central door and flanking sashes with glazing
bars; roof has high parapet, raised over central carved panel
with Council coat of arms. At right, lower wide bay with
quoins has central well-cut Venetian window with keyed head,
and plain sill apron. Eaves band stepped over window.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Walls attached enclose forecourt and path from door to Galgate
and have sloped stone coping, with chamfered coping to square
piers; railings removed.
HISTORY: plaque attached to No.45 says that this was the
birthplace of Cecil Northcote Parkinson, the author who
formulated `Parkinson's Law'.

Listing NGR: NZ0511216708

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496823

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)