Latitude: 54.5402 / 54°32'24"N
Longitude: -1.9247 / 1°55'28"W
OS Eastings: 404969
OS Northings: 516107
OS Grid: NZ049161
Mapcode National: GBR HH0Y.37
Mapcode Global: WHB4L.D4QR
Plus Code: 9C6WG3RG+34
Entry Name: Thorngate House and Attached Railings
Listing Date: 24 February 1950
Last Amended: 28 November 1994
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1218873
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388838
ID on this website: 101218873
Location: Startforth, County Durham, DL12
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Barnard Castle
Built-Up Area: Barnard Castle
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Barnard Castle with Whorlton
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Building
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
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