Walls Around Spring Lodge Garden

The walls around the garden of Spring Lodge in Barnard Castle were built around 1820. They consist of coursed roughly squared stone, coursed rubble, and coursed squared stone topped with stone coping. The entrance features ashlar piers and wrought-iron gates. The quadrant walls flanking the entrance are made of coursed squared stone with flat stone coping, and they have square outer piers with plinths and flat stone coping. The ashlar gate piers have panelled shafts and low pyramidal coping, supporting simple spike-headed wrought-iron vehicle gates with curved lower bracing and spike dogbars.

A wall extending along Newgate to Spring Lodge Cottage is constructed of rougher stone with gabled coping and ends in a vehicle entrance to the west of Spring Lodge Cottage, featuring square piers with pyramidal coping. South of the entrance, the wall runs along Parson's Lonnen and returns along the Demesnes, enclosing the garden. This section is approximately 1.5 meters high, made of rubble with gabled coping, and includes a boarded door providing access to the Demesnes.

These walls are significant as both streetscape and landscape features, serving as the setting for Spring Lodge and forming the approach to the Bowes Museum. They run parallel to the garden wall of the Museum and are flanked by the wall to the Vicarage, leading to the River Tees and overlooking the Demesnes beside the river.