21, Galgate is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. A C18 Residential, council office. 4 related planning applications.
21, Galgate
- WRENN ID
- nether-pavement-dawn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- Residential, council office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516NW GALGATE 770-1/4/25 (South East side) 24/02/50 No.21 (Formerly Listed as: GALGATE (South side) No.21 Startforth Rural District Council Offices)
GV II*
House, later council offices, now offices. Mid C18. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roof of renewed stone slates with stone gable copings and stone chimneys. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Steps up to central 6-panel door, lower panels flush, in doorcase of architrave surround under pedimented entablature on Tuscan half-columns on pedestals. All windows have sashes with glazing bars in architraves, on ground floor 2 in each of flanking bows with cornice and high coped parapet, on top floor with 6 panes. Projecting quoins; cyma-moulded eaves gutter cornice with moulded rain-water head between third and fourth windows; coped eaves parapet. Roof has end gable coping and end chimenys on plinths and with cornices. Left return rubble and render patching where adjacent house demolished. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: plaque on right bow says this was the home in the C19 of Sir Robert Murchison, geologist and explorer, President of the Royal Geographical Society, who died in 1871.
Listing NGR: NZ0504116640
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