Numbers 88 And 90 And Attached Walls

A pair of houses with attached walls, dating from the late 19th century, located in Galgate, Barnard Castle. They are built with thin courses of squared rock-faced stone, featuring an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings. The roofs are covered with Welsh slate, incorporating stone gable copings and ashlar and stone chimneys. The houses are two storeys high, with a six-window front. Each house has a symmetrical design, with steps leading up to central four-panel doors. These doors have shaped overlights set within plain ashlar surrounds with segmental heads, constructed using rock-faced voussoirs. Tall, canted bay windows flank the doors, displaying plain sashes with segmental heads and hipped roofs. Each house also has three first-floor sashes with segmental-headed ashlar surrounds and a sill band. Features include end quoins and an eaves band. The roof displays end gable copings on moulded kneelers, along with end and central chimneys featuring high plinths and stepped, sloping copings. The interior was not inspected. Subsidiary features include rock-faced garden walls to the street and along the returns, with sloped coping, and tall, square ashlar gate piers at the corners and at each entrance, topped with corniced, pyramidal coping.