The Vicarage And Glebe Cottage

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW NEWGATE 770-1/6/171 (South side) 14/10/91 The Vicarage and Glebe Cottage

GV II

Vicarage to Parish Church of St Mary, now vicarage and curate's house. c1852. For Canon Dugard. Snecked stone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roof graduated stone slates with ashlar gable copings and chimneys. Approximate L-plan. Tudor/Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range on garden front. Entrance front on right return. Windows have plain glazing with chamfered stone mullions and transoms. Garden front has gabled left bay with 1:2:1 transomed lights in canted bay window on ground floor under steeply pitched stone flagged roof; 3-light transomed window above. Central 3-light and right 2-light transomed ground-floor windows, and similar but shorter first-floor windows breaking through eaves under small gables. Steep roof has gable copings on moulded kneelers. Ridge and gable chimneys have blind arcades, chamfered plinths and high rounded coping. Entrance front has 2 storeys; 3-window range. Projecting gabled blind first bay has stepped coping to tall buttress of external chimney stack, which has offsets and high niche under relieving arch. Fleur-de-lis carved on shield in niche. To right of this gable, gabled porch projects with stone step to boarded door deeply recessed in moulded Tudor arch under relieving arch; richly carved scroll above has motto `CE QUE DIEU GARDE EST BIEN GARDE'. Return of porch has 2 cusped lights and plate tracery in moulded 2-centred arch surround. 3-light mullioned-and-transomed window over porch in gablet with slit vent. To right of porch a taller similar entrance hall window, and cross window on 2 levels to right, the second under gablet. Below this a relieving arch over C20 inserted moulded surround to partly-glazed door to Glebe Cottage. At right a single light, and at right end an external chimney stack. Set against rear right corner is a pier, one of two at entrance to stable yard. All windows have chamfered stone surrounds and mullions, sloping stone sills, and relieving arches above, some with transoms. INTERIOR: stone corner fire in entrance porch, which has coloured tile floor and A-truss roof. Study and dining room have stone chimney pieces, the former Tudor arched and carved under cornice, the latter with cornice over frieze carved with Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis and grotesques. Sitting room has marble chimney piece with C17 style blue and white glazed tiles. Panelled shutters. Open-well closed-string stair with grip handrail and Jacobean detail, and additional temporary safety rail.

Listing NGR: NZ0536416178