14 AND 16, GALGATE

This is a mid-18th century house, now used as shops and flats, located in Galgate, Barnard Castle. The building is constructed of painted sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has a roof of composition tiles with stone gable copings. It is two storeys high and has a three-window facade. A renewed glazed door is set within a tooled stone surround to the right of the centre. To the left is a shop front with paired doors—half-glazed above for the shop and with five panels and an overlight above the door. The shop front has end pilasters with cyma recta brackets, flanking a fascia and supporting a folding canopy with hinged iron stays. A smaller, shallow four-pane window is visible beneath the shop fascia, with a shop sign fixed above. The first floor has sash windows, all of which have been renewed with four panes, set within tooled plain stone surrounds. The roof has slightly swept eaves and a right-hand gable coping on a moulded kneeler with a chamfered coping. There are tall end chimneys, with the left chimney raised to an adjacent stack. The interior has not been inspected.