Former Chapel at North West Corner of Garden to Number 7 Former Chapel in Outer Ward of the Castle, with Wall Attached is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1973. Byre.

Former Chapel at North West Corner of Garden to Number 7 Former Chapel in Outer Ward of the Castle, with Wall Attached

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 March 1973
Type
Byre
Address
Former Chapel at North West Corner of Garden to Number 7 Former Chapel in Outer Ward of the Castle, with Wall Attached, the Scar, Barnard Castle
OS grid reference
NZ 049 163
Coordinates
54.54227, -1.9252
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a 19th-century byre incorporating fragments of the Chapel of St Margaret, located in the outer ward of Barnard Castle. Parts of the structure date to the 12th and 13th centuries. A wall is attached to the byre, and a further wall runs south behind the gardens of houses along The Bank.

The byre has a square plan, situated against the corner of a garden belonging to number 7, The Bank, and lies west of number 6, Market Place. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a pantile roof with a stone ridge and stone slates at the eaves. The attached wall is of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings.

The north elevation of the byre features a boarded Dutch door at the left and a window with hit-and-miss vents below three panes to the right. The return elevation on the right has a stone lintel over a blocked central door. The south elevation, facing the garden, shows a blocked door with left block jambs, disturbed masonry, and a blocked opening with a flat stone lintel and well-cut block jambs.

The interior, largely obscured by limewash, contains a fragment of a round pier approximately 0.8 metres high, of 13th-century character, with a moulded plinth. Above this fragment are two blocked rectangular lights. The attached wall, approximately 3 metres high, has a boarded door with block jambs and two lancet windows with stone slate shelves; the left lancet head comprises a single stone, the right head of two stones resting on block jambs and a mullion. The wall extends north-south to join the Castle Wall and has irregular coping.

Local climate

Former Chapel at North West Corner of Garden to Number 7 Former Chapel in Outer Ward of the Castle, with Wall Attached receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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