Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0416SE THORNGATE
770-1/5/225 (South West side)
22/02/73 Thorngate Mill

GV II

Worsted weaving mill, now retail book warehouse. Early C19.
For Messrs JHS Pratt. Coursed squared stone with ashlar
dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone slate eaves and stone
gable copings.
EXTERIOR: elevation to river of basement and 3 storeys;
11-window range; elevation to Thorngate of 3 storeys;
10-window range and 3-storey stair wing to left. Flat stone
lintels and projecting stone sills to all windows, some with
glazing bars damaged or missing, some with early C19 glazing
bars, 7x6 lights with top 2 rows in opening transoms, others
replaced with mid C19 six-light casements.
River front has glazing bars on basement, casements on ground,
3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows (or 3-light
cross-casements?) on first and second floors. Small scattered
roof lights. Pent one-storey left extension has 4 lights with
upper glazing bars, and roof removed. Right return has double
loading doors on each floor, and one window, with one blocked
in attic.
Elevation to Thorngate has ramp up to altered entrance under
wide steel lintel in third bay, lintel continuing over boarded
door at right; full-height stair wing in curved projection to
left with pent roof to eaves of main building; windows with
small lights on landings; most windows have small lights;
6-light in 5th and 6th bays on top floor and in 6th bay on
first. 3 protruding roof lights covered over. Some slates
missing.
INTERIOR: cast-iron flanged piers on ground floor.

Listing NGR: NZ0489816006

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497399

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)