Number 46 And Attached Rear Walls And Outbuilding

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW NEWGATE 770-1/6/143 (North side) No.46 and attached rear walls and outbuilding

GV II

House, later office and flats, then houses and flat, with rear outbuildings and walls. Front rebuilt c1860; rear range probably late C18 (date stone 1799). Irregular courses of squared stone with ashlar plinth, pecked quoins and dressings. Roof of stone slates with stone gable copings and stone and brick chimneys. L-plan with outbuilding against rear wall of small rear yard. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Central 6-panel door and margined overlight with flat stone lintel and alternate block jambs. Plain sash windows with similar lintels and jambs have projecting stone sills. Roof has gable copings on cyma-moulded kneelers; end yellow brick chimneys on stone plinths. Rear shows 2-storey outshut under catslide roof. 2-storey link at rear under monopitch roof, taller side set against lower 2-storey, 4-window rear wing. Ledged boarded door at left with tall 2-pane overlight. Blocked door to right of this has flat stone lintel and inserted window. To right, half-glazed door in plain stone surround. Next, a blocked door with flat stone lintel and inserted window; next right, high wall of house yard breaks forward. Next right, plain stone surround to blocked door, then flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill to sash window with glazing bars. At right a blocked door with lintel inscribed 1799 and initials ?HND partly obscured by rainwater pipe. On first floor, a small opening above the left end door, and C20 2-light casements over other doors. Against yard wall and facing house is an outbuilding, probably originally earth closet and coal store, of rubble with roof of stone slates. One storey and one window: pierced ventilation holes in boarded door, small 4-pane window, and boarded door in right return; pent roof. High wall with flat stone coping forms yard and has flat stone lintel over boarded door adjacent to rear wing. INTERIOR: front range shows C19 tiled central entrance hall with half-glazed screen to inner door; 6-panel doors; panelled reveals to windows; marble chimney piece. Keyed round arch to rear stair.

Listing NGR: NZ0525416265