Spring Lodge With Attached Yard Wall

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW NEWGATE 770-1/6/166 (South side) 22/02/73 Spring Lodge with attached yard wall

GV II

House, now hotel, with attached yard wall. c1820. For Mr Watson, solicitor. Mid-late C19 additions and alterations. Ashlar; Lakeland slate roof with stone chimneys. 2 storeys; 2x3-window range, with 2-storey, one-window extension on right return; yard wall to left, service wing to rear of yard. EXTERIOR: west, entrance, front has Greek Doric porch with deep entablature; double panelled door with overlight. Sashes with glazing bars on first floor have flat stone lintels and slightly projecting stone sills. Low-pitched hipped roof has wide eaves on widely spaced block corbels, and large corniced chimney stack running front-back, and rear stack at eaves of extension. Left return has sashes with glazing bars. Right return, garden, front has Tuscan pilasters and entablature to canted bay window at left which also has blocking course and to square bay at right. 3 sashes above have glazing bars. Extension to right is set back, with tripartite windows in full-height projecting square bay with block corbels to plain stone surrounds and mullions, first-floor band, and top cornice. Roof similar to main roof. INTERIOR: open-well main stair with stucco ceiling decoration, and dogleg secondary stair with wave-moulded tread ends, and rounded handrail on stick balusters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high yard wall is coursed rubble with flat stone coping.

Listing NGR: NZ0544316154