26, Newgate

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW NEWGATE 770-1/6/137 (North side) No.26

GV II

House, later house, flat and shop. Mostly late C18, incorporating C17 and possibly C16 structure. Painted incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings, and right return rubble with quoins and ashlar plinth and dressings; roof of stone slates with stone ridge and chimneys. L-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range. Shop front at left has 4-panelled door and overlight with glazing bars to right of 3-light window with slender mullions, all in surround with panelled pilasters and plain fascia and hood. Blocks on pilasters formerly held richly carved terms (photograph in owner's possession). Plain sash above with painted flat stone lintel and sill. Similar sash at right on ground floor has flat sill, and lintel obscured by ogee bracket to first-floor canted oriel, which has angle shafts, plain sashes and prominent cornice. Low-pitched roof, hipped at left, has centre and right ridge chimneys with stone bands. Right return has 6-panel door towards rear of house under re-used inscription as lintel, possibly C17: `O REMEMBER MAN IS MORTALL'. 6-pane light to left of door and 4-pane sash above have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Small light high in wall of rear offshut with long catslide roof. Rear elevation shows 2-light C17 stone windows with chamfered surrounds and mullions. INTERIOR: wide splays to rear windows, and one with lead ties on cross bars. Ground-floor shop has stone fire surround at left with hollow-chamfered reveals. Ground-floor rear flat said to show beams. First-floor left room has blocked narrow window in right wall suggesting right bay an addition. HISTORY: Source of re-used inscription not known. Medieval hospital of St John the Baptist, founded c1230, stood on the opposite side of Newgate (Clack and Gosling 1976). (Clack: Archaeology in the North. App.A vi ... Barnard Castle: Durham: 1976-: 210).

Listing NGR: NZ0518316289