Commercial Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. Hotel.
Commercial Hotel
- WRENN ID
- grey-timber-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Commercial Hotel, 12, Galgate, Barnard Castle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 049 166
- Coordinates
- 54.54514, -1.92468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Commercial Hotel receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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