The Vicarage And Glebe Cottage

The Vicarage and Glebe Cottage are a vicarage built around 1852 for Canon Dugard, positioned near the Parish Church of St Mary in Barnard Castle. Constructed of snecked stone with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, the roof is covered in graduated stone slates with ashlar gable copings and chimneys. The building presents an approximate L-plan and embodies a Tudor/Gothic architectural style.

The garden front has three windows and displays a gabled left bay with a canted bay window on the ground floor that features a steeply pitched stone flagged roof. Above this, a three-light transomed window is set. The central and right-hand ground floor windows are also transomed, with shorter, similarly styled windows on the first floor, set within small gables. The roof has prominent gable copings on moulded kneelers, alongside ridge and gable chimneys featuring blind arcades, chamfered plinths, and rounded coping.

The entrance front, on the right return, has three windows over two storeys. A projecting gabled blind bay on the left has stepped coping to a tall buttress containing an external chimney stack, which has offsets and a niche under a relieving arch. This niche holds a carved fleur-de-lis on a shield, accompanied by the motto 'CE QUE DIEU GARDE EST BIEN GARDE' carved in a richly moulded Tudor arch. A porch projects to the right of this gable, with a stone step leading to a boarded door recessed within a deeply moulded Tudor arch, also under a relieving arch. The porch return features two cusped lights and plate tracery within a moulded two-centred arch. A three-light mullioned-and-transomed window sits above the porch, with a small vent. A taller, similarly styled window flanks the porch, alongside a cross window on two levels, further right, with a gablet above. Below this is a relieving arch above a 20th-century moulded surround for a partially glazed door, providing access to Glebe Cottage. A single light window and an external chimney stack complete the right end of the front.

All windows feature chamfered stone surrounds, mullions, sloping stone sills, and relieving arches above, with some including transoms.

The interior includes a stone corner fireplace in the entrance porch, with a coloured tile floor and an A-truss roof. The study and dining room have stone chimney pieces; the former is Tudor arched and carved under a cornice, while the latter has a cornice decorated with a Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis, and grotesques. The sitting room features a marble chimney piece with 17th-century style blue and white glazed tiles, and panelled shutters. An open-well staircase has a grip handrail with Jacobean detailing, and a temporary safety rail has been added. A pier, one of two marking the entrance to the stable yard, is set against the rear right corner.