Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW NEWGATE
770-1/6/171 (South side)
14/10/91 The Vicarage and Glebe Cottage

GV II

Vicarage to Parish Church of St Mary, now vicarage and
curate's house. c1852. For Canon Dugard. Snecked stone with
ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roof graduated stone
slates with ashlar gable copings and chimneys. Approximate
L-plan. Tudor/Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range on garden front. Entrance
front on right return. Windows have plain glazing with
chamfered stone mullions and transoms. Garden front has gabled
left bay with 1:2:1 transomed lights in canted bay window on
ground floor under steeply pitched stone flagged roof; 3-light
transomed window above. Central 3-light and right 2-light
transomed ground-floor windows, and similar but shorter
first-floor windows breaking through eaves under small gables.
Steep roof has gable copings on moulded kneelers. Ridge and
gable chimneys have blind arcades, chamfered plinths and high
rounded coping.
Entrance front has 2 storeys; 3-window range. Projecting
gabled blind first bay has stepped coping to tall buttress of
external chimney stack, which has offsets and high niche under
relieving arch. Fleur-de-lis carved on shield in niche. To
right of this gable, gabled porch projects with stone step to
boarded door deeply recessed in moulded Tudor arch under
relieving arch; richly carved scroll above has motto `CE QUE
DIEU GARDE EST BIEN GARDE'. Return of porch has 2 cusped
lights and plate tracery in moulded 2-centred arch surround.
3-light mullioned-and-transomed window over porch in gablet
with slit vent. To right of porch a taller similar entrance
hall window, and cross window on 2 levels to right, the second
under gablet. Below this a relieving arch over C20 inserted
moulded surround to partly-glazed door to Glebe Cottage. At
right a single light, and at right end an external chimney
stack. Set against rear right corner is a pier, one of two at
entrance to stable yard. All windows have chamfered stone
surrounds and mullions, sloping stone sills, and relieving
arches above, some with transoms.
INTERIOR: stone corner fire in entrance porch, which has
coloured tile floor and A-truss roof. Study and dining room
have stone chimney pieces, the former Tudor arched and carved
under cornice, the latter with cornice over frieze carved with
Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis and grotesques. Sitting room has
marble chimney piece with C17 style blue and white glazed
tiles. Panelled shutters. Open-well closed-string stair with
grip handrail and Jacobean detail, and additional temporary
safety rail.

Listing NGR: NZ0536416178

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579950

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)