Bowling Club Pavilion Approximately 70 Metres To East Of Bowes Museum

The Bowling Club Pavilion, located approximately 70 metres east of Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, was built around 1900. It is constructed of timber with weatherboarding on a rock-faced stone plinth and features a cast-iron verandah arcade. The roof is made of synthetic tiles, topped with a terracotta ridge and finials, and includes half-timbered gablets. The pavilion has a symmetrical design with identical east and west elevations, as well as north and south elevations. It is a single-storey building with two windows. The cast-iron piers have banded lower sections and narrower rope-moulded sections above, supporting a panelled section from which delicate scrolled quadrants with ornate edges rise to support the eaves, including at the corners on the return eaves. There are three steps leading up between the inner piers to the verandah, which features a panelled door with a blocked narrow overlight. Flanking hatches or windows are framed with pairs of plain shutters, and there are hinged flaps between the shutters and the angle of the building. The hipped roof has a half-timbered gablet above the steps, complete with a terracotta finial, and similar finials adorn the roll-moulded ridge raised on the end gablets. The interior has not been inspected.