Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW NEWGATE
770-1/6/167 (South side)
22/02/73 Walls around Spring Lodge garden
(Formerly Listed as:
NEWGATE
(South side)
Wall between Spring Lodge garden and
Newgate)

GV II

Wall and gates along north, west and south side of garden of
Spring Lodge (qv). c1820. Coursed roughly squared stone,
coursed rubble, coursed squared stone with stone coping, with
ashlar entrance piers and wrought-iron gates. Quadrant walls
flanking entrance are coursed squared stone and have flat
stone coping and square outer piers with plinths and flat
stone coping. Ashlar gate piers have panelled shafts and low
pyramidal coping, and hold vehicle gates of simple
spike-headed wrought-iron with curved lower bracing and spike
dogbars. Wall extending along Newgate to Spring Lodge Cottage
(qv) is of rougher stone with gabled coping, and ends in
vehicle entrance to west of Spring Lodge Cottage, with square
piers with pyramidal coping.
South of the entrance the wall runs along Parson's Lonnen and
returns along the Demesnes enclosing the garden; approx 1.5m
high, of rubble with gabled coping; south section has boarded
door giving access to the Demesnes.
These walls are important as streetscape and landscape
features. They are the setting for Spring Lodge, and form the
approach to the Bowes Museum, running parallel to the garden
wall of the Museum (qv), and with the wall to the Vicarage
(qv) flanking the lane to the River Tees and looking out over
the Demesnes beside the river.

Listing NGR: NZ0539516165

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579972

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