40, Horse Market

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0416NE HORSE MARKET 770-1/3/95 (South West side) 22/02/73 No.40

GV II

House, now shop. Early C18 with C19 alterations and c1990 restoration. Rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate and stone slate roof with stone gable copings and chimneys. 2 storeys 2-window range with low right passage extension. Main house has plain stone surround to renewed half-glazed door to left of centre; low flanking canted-bay shop windows have plain sashes, one in left and 3 in right. First floor of tall proportions has sashes with glazing bars in architraves with projecting moulded sills. Steeply pitched roof has right gable coping, the left overlaid by adjacent building, and gable kneelers with cyma mouldings. Right end plain coped chimney. Right passage extension of two lower storeys has plain stone surround to boarded door under 9-pane sash in plain stone surround; roof of graduated stone slates with stone ridge. Right return of main house has attic light in front part of gable with 4-pane horizontal sliding sash in renewed flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill. INTERIOR: roof of upper crucks with 2 levels of purlins on external wedges; and 2 collars, the lower projecting above the lower purlins. Some collars and purlins renewed. Renewed narrow ridge piece.

Listing NGR: NZ0495116572