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21, Galgate

A Grade II* Listed Building in Barnard Castle, County Durham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.545 / 54°32'42"N

Longitude: -1.9236 / 1°55'25"W

OS Eastings: 405038

OS Northings: 516641

OS Grid: NZ050166

Mapcode National: GBR HH0W.BJ

Mapcode Global: WHB4L.F161

Plus Code: 9C6WG3WG+2H

Entry Name: 21, Galgate

Listing Date: 24 February 1950

Last Amended: 28 November 1994

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1292565

English Heritage Legacy ID: 388654

ID on this website: 101292565

Location: Barnard Castle, 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

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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

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