Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW NEWGATE 770-1/6/145 (North side) 22/02/73 Nos.64 AND 66 Spring Grove

GV II

Formerly known as: The Parsonage House NEWGATE. Pair of houses. c1870 pair of houses incorporating C18 house at one time vicarage. Coursed squared stone with older coursed squared rubble at left and on first 2 floors and brick rear right return, with ashlar dressings; roof of graduated Lakeland slates with stone gable copings and chimneys. 2 storeys and attic, 4-window range and lower 2-storey, 2-window, rear wing on right return. Some Gothic Revival style detail. Steps up to renewed glazed door and shaped overlight in chamfered surround with quoined jambs and 2-centred-arched head under hoodmould. Corniced canted bay windows in outer ground-floor bays have plain sashes. Similar sashes in paired windows to right of door and above canted bays, and single windows in central first floor, all with broach-stopped chamfers to stone surrounds. Plain stone surrounds to sashes in hipped dormers breaking eaves in first, third and fourth bays. Steeply pitched roof has corniced ridge chimneys. Right return shows 2 plain sashes on each floor and attics of front range; to right, gabled Gothic entrance to No.66, 3-light stone-mullioned window in one-story range with set-back first floor of older brick. This has inserted C20 door flanked by 4-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds, and hipped roof. INTERIOR: No.66 has entrance hall with geometric floor tiles and Frosterley `marble' shelf; marble chimney piece to principal room. HISTORY: shown as the Parsonage House in 1827, this was the vicarage to the Church of St Mary (qv), before the building of the present Vicarage (qv) on the south side of Newgate, opposite. (John Wood: Map of Barnard Castle: Barnard Castle: 1827-).

Listing NGR: NZ0532816246

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