Barn And Attached Wall At Spring Lodge

BARNARD CASTLE

770-1/0/10007 NEWGATE 19-DEC-03 (South side) Barn and attached wall at Spring Lodge

GV II Barn. c. 1800. Rubble stone walls with large dressed quoins, graduated stone slate roof. Rectangular with original doorway in east gable end with large pecked stone jambs and lintel. Window to right of door with wooden frame and external horizontal iron bars, probably a later insertion. Window opening in south face with concrete lintel and stone cill, boarded up, later insertion. Small modern roof light in south-facing roof. Interior not accessed. Wall of uncoursed stone with stone coping emerges from eastern end of south face, forming one side of a gateway at its southern end. A lower wall of similar construction runs from this, in front of south face, with a central entrance gap. It then curves back towards the south-west corner of the barn with the final section taller and forming the side of an entrance gap to the west side of the barn. Alignment of the barn slightly offset to the listed surrounding wall, which butts up to it, suggesting that it is earlier than the listed wall. Since the listed wall is dated at c.1820, the barn is possibly a little earlier.