Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SE NEWGATE 770-1/7/170 (South side) Spring Lodge Cottage

GV II

Garden house and outhouse to Spring Lodge (qv) with walls, railings and pier attached. Mid C19. Snecked stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with terra cotta ridge. Rubble walls with ashlar coping; wrought-iron railings; stone pier. EXTERIOR: house of 2 storeys; 3-window range. Elevation to Newgate has flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to plain sashes; similar stair window at centre first floor flanked by round-headed sashes with projecting sills in keyed round surrounds, rising through eaves in dormers with deeply projecting eaves and shaped bargeboards with tall spike finials. Roof has end chimneys with top bands. One-storey outhouse to right is blank to road, adjacent to gate piers of wall enclosing garden of Spring Lodge (qv). Elevation to garden has flat stone lintels to central door and overlight and flanking sashes; first floor blank; outhouse has renewed central door and flanking windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. Wall enclosing area has gabled coping at left side, and returns along south elevation with pecked coping to lowered section which has plain round iron rail and two posts with ball finials. Another short section of wall breaks forward from right to tapered square pecked pier with chamfered top, forming with pier against garden wall the entrance to drive to coachouse. This occupies an important position closing the group of ancilliary buildings to Spring Lodge and facing the Lodges (qv) of the Bowes Museum across Newgate. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ0551416170

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990