Commercial Hotel

The Commercial Hotel, located at No. 12 Galgate in Barnard Castle, is a house that has been converted into a hotel, likely built in the early to mid-18th century. The exterior features painted rough render with a painted ashlar plinth and ashlar dressings, topped by a roof made of composition tiles with ashlar gable coping and kneelers. The building has three storeys and a three-window range.

The entrance includes a 19th-century door with three-over-three panels set within a stone surround that has an architrave, a triglyph frieze, and a bracketed cornice. To the left, there is an elliptical vehicle arch, while to the right is a 19th-century canted bay window with four-pane sashes, angle colonnettes, and a prominent cornice. The upper floors feature sashes with glazing bars, with 12-pane windows on the first floor and 9-pane windows on the second, all having painted ashlar architraves. The steeply-pitched roof has renewed gable copings resting on narrow moulded kneelers, and there are large end chimneys, one made of red brick on the left and the other of yellow brick on the right. The interior has not been inspected.