Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SE NEWGATE
770-1/7/147 (North side)
22/02/73 Barnard Castle School
(Formerly Listed as:
NEWGATE
(North side)
Barnard Castle School (excluding
modern additions))

GV II

Independent school. 1883-6. By Clark & Moscrop of Darlington.
1889-90 sanatorium; 1896 swimming-bath block; 1899-1900
science block. For the Trustees of Benjamin Flounders with the
Trustees of St. John's Hospital, Barnard Castle, and a Durham
University Committee. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar plinth,
quoins and dressings; roof of graduated Lakeland slate with
stone gable copings and chimneys.
PLAN: symmetrical with north, east and west wings radiating
from central projecting office block; left sanatorium wing and
rear swimming pool and science laboratories attached. Jacobean
style.
EXTERIOR: south elevation towards Newgate of 3 storeys and
attics 6:3:6-window range. Steps up to central door in
frontispiece with Ionic order on ground floor and Tuscan on 2
upper floors; many-panelled door and overlight with decorative
glazing bars in round arch with imposts, flanked by narrow
round-headed lights with glazing bars; large elaborate bracket
to first floor oriel flanked by niches; second floor has
mullioned-and-transomed window and niches; top balustrade with
obelisk finials. Floor strings continuous across front to all
windows, which have from 2 to 6 lights and smaller on upper
floors, which have filletted ovolo moulding to mullions and
transoms and are recessed in flat stone surrounds. Triple
gables over projecting entrance block have small 3-light
windows; 5 gabled dormers rise from eaves at each side.
Sanatorium at left, linked to main block by corridor with
shouldered arches, breaks forward with 7-light window on
ground floor and 9-light windows on upper floors in gable to
front, and 5 tall 2-light windows one each floor in returns.
Roof has stone coping to all gables, and tall glazed lantern
over junction of 3 wings.
INTERIOR: original detail mostly unaltered, with C17 style
carved and moulded stone chimneypieces in principal offices
and corniced plainer stone chimneypieces in classrooms;
rail-and-stile doors with 6 equal panels or classroom doors
with upper panels glazed; architraves, boarded classroom
dados, and cornices.
On ground floor, Big School at right and dining hall at left
panelled with Tudor-flower frieze; dining hall has doorcases
with broken pediment on architrave. Central well under lantern
has diabolo balustraded galleries, with arched entrances to
the 3 wings; wrought-iron roof ties; gallery and boarded dado
at each level; enclosed stair off to rear right is cantileverd
and has high grip handrail on stick balusters. Swimming bath
has roof of big renewed A-trusses of laminated wood, the
collars paired and bolted; boarded pine ceiling with lantern
to cupola.
Originally the North Eastern County School, the name was
changed to Barnard Castle School in 1924.
(Hitchcock RC: The History of Barnard Castle School 1883-1933:
1933-).

Listing NGR: NZ0582416271

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580143

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Recommended Books

• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)