Walls Around Spring Lodge Garden

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW NEWGATE 770-1/6/167 (South side) 22/02/73 Walls around Spring Lodge garden (Formerly Listed as: NEWGATE (South side) Wall between Spring Lodge garden and Newgate)

GV II

Wall and gates along north, west and south side of garden of Spring Lodge (qv). c1820. Coursed roughly squared stone, coursed rubble, coursed squared stone with stone coping, with ashlar entrance piers and wrought-iron gates. Quadrant walls flanking entrance are coursed squared stone and have flat stone coping and square outer piers with plinths and flat stone coping. Ashlar gate piers have panelled shafts and low pyramidal coping, and hold vehicle gates of simple spike-headed wrought-iron with curved lower bracing and spike dogbars. Wall extending along Newgate to Spring Lodge Cottage (qv) is of rougher stone with gabled coping, and ends in vehicle entrance to west of Spring Lodge Cottage, with square piers with pyramidal coping. South of the entrance the wall runs along Parson's Lonnen and returns along the Demesnes enclosing the garden; approx 1.5m high, of rubble with gabled coping; south section has boarded door giving access to the Demesnes. These walls are important as streetscape and landscape features. They are the setting for Spring Lodge, and form the approach to the Bowes Museum, running parallel to the garden wall of the Museum (qv), and with the wall to the Vicarage (qv) flanking the lane to the River Tees and looking out over the Demesnes beside the river.

Listing NGR: NZ0539516165