83, Harmire Road

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BARNARD CASTLE HARMIRE ROAD (West side) No.83

II

Formerly known as: Crossing Keeper's House HARMIRE ROAD.

Railway junction keeper's house, now office. c1856. For Stockton and Darlington Railway Company. Snecked stone with ashlar quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone chimney. One low storey; two-window range. L-plan.

Central renewed six-panel door and small overlight in alternate block jambs under flat stone lintel with wood-bracketed sloping stone hood. Flanking paired renewed four-pane sashes have similar jambs and lintels and projecting stone sills. Low-pitched roof has right end gable coping with block kneelers, and small square right end chimney with top band.

Left gable built over by adjacent house. Square railway company plaque at right has painted low relief shield with letters F 10', andS & DRC' flanking foot of shield. Right return has blocked door. Rear wing gabled with chimney. C20 flat-roofed rear extension.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

(Tomlinson WW: North Eastern Railway (3rd edition): Newton Abbott: 1987-: 523-4; Heritage Series, Discovery Guides: Tallantire W L: Barnard Castle (1988): Middleton-in-Teesdale: 30; Hoole K: Railway Stations of the North East: Newton Abbot: 1985-: 152).

Listing NGR: NZ0543017474