Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516NW GALGATE
770-1/4/25 (South East side)
24/02/50 No.21
(Formerly Listed as:
GALGATE
(South side)
No.21
Startforth Rural District Council
Offices)

GV II*

House, later council offices, now offices. Mid C18. Coursed
squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings;
roof of renewed stone slates with stone gable copings and
stone chimneys.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Steps up to
central 6-panel door, lower panels flush, in doorcase of
architrave surround under pedimented entablature on Tuscan
half-columns on pedestals. All windows have sashes with
glazing bars in architraves, on ground floor 2 in each of
flanking bows with cornice and high coped parapet, on top
floor with 6 panes. Projecting quoins; cyma-moulded eaves
gutter cornice with moulded rain-water head between third and
fourth windows; coped eaves parapet. Roof has end gable coping
and end chimenys on plinths and with cornices. Left return
rubble and render patching where adjacent house demolished.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: plaque on right bow says this was the home in the C19
of Sir Robert Murchison, geologist and explorer, President of
the Royal Geographical Society, who died in 1871.

Listing NGR: NZ0504116640

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536745

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2