Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0416SE THORNGATE
770-1/5/210 (East side)
24/02/50 No.8
Thorngate House and attached
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
THORNGATE
(East side)
Nos.8 AND 8A)

GV II*

House with front steps and railings. Mid C18 with c1796
alterations. Altered for Sir John Hullock, to accommodate
fellow judges on the circuit. Coursed squared sandstone with
ashlar plinth, quoins and tooled dressings; rubble left return
and rear, with ashlar rear extension; roof of stone slates
with stone gable copings and ashlar chimneys.
EXTERIOR: basement and 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range.
Paired side steps up to central 8-panel door in pedimented
architrave with scroll brackets and pulvinated frieze. Early
C19 glazing bars to sashes in architraves, with ground-floor
and first-floor sill bands. Eaves gutter cornice and coped
roof parapet. Rusticated quoins. Tall end chimneys with
plinths and cornices. Spike-headed railings to area in front
of basement rise up steps to door.
Rear elevation shows bowed ashlar extension breaking forward
at left, and extruded porch added with door and sidelights.
Plain stone surrounds to sashes with glazing bars, tripartite
sash above porch and on alternate floors in bowed wing.
INTERIOR: has good early C19 doors, architraves and cornices,
with some earlier dado rails and doors, and altered staircase
with 2 turned balusters per tread. Window shutters visible to
most windows.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spike-headed railings to area in front of
basement rise up steps to entrance.
HISTORY: plaque on front of building records ownership of Sir
John Hullock, judge, and his improvements to the house in
order to entertain his fellow judges.

Listing NGR: NZ0497316106

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536514

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5