20 and 20a, Galgate is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. House, shop. 4 related planning applications.
20 and 20a, Galgate
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-slate-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 20 and 20a, Galgate, Barnard Castle, DL12 8BG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 049 166
- Coordinates
- 54.54529, -1.92436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 20 and 20A on Galgate is a house, now divided into two homes with shops, dating from around 1800. It is constructed from pecked coursed squared stone with stone dressings, while the left return gable is made of rubble. The building features a stone slate roof with stone gable copings and stone chimneys. It stands two storeys high and has a four-window range.
Access to the left side includes one external step and two recessed inner steps leading to a door with an overlight, all set in a pecked stone surround. To the right, there is a shop front from around 1900 that projects outwards, featuring a wooden fascia and a recessed door to the left. The second bay has a full-height canted window with stone mullions and renewed glazing on the ground floor. The third bay has a renewed window with a flat stone lintel and projecting stone sills. Similar lintels and sills are present on the first floor sashes. All windows, including the bay window, have plate-glass lower sections and two-pane upper lights. The roof has plain end gable coping and a corniced ridge chimney. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
20 and 20a, Galgate receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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