8. 10 and 10a, Galgate is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. House.
8. 10 and 10a, Galgate
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-spindle-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8. 10 and 10a, Galgate, Barnard Castle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 049 166
- Coordinates
- 54.54507, -1.92483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8, 10, and 10A Galgate is a house that has been converted into two shops and a flat. It dates from the late 18th century and has some alterations from the 19th century, including the raising of the third bay. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and dressings, and it features roofs made of synthetic slates and Welsh slate, with stone gable copings and a brick chimney.
The exterior is two and three storeys high and has a three-window range. There is a painted tooled stone surround to a low boarded yard-passage door located to the right of the second bay. A flush door with a plain overlight for No. 8 is situated to the left under a flat stone lintel. To the right of this door is a plain sash window. The shop front in the first two bays projects and includes a central recessed glazed door, with slender Tuscan pilasters at the corners. Above the fascia and door head is a trade sign featuring a pair of large spectacles, along with a shallow hood. The shop front in the third bay has slender mullions and a high plain fascia, with a glazed door on the left.
On the first floor, there is a small 4-pane sash window to the left, which has a sill and lintel similar to the sash below. There is also a canted bay oriel window with a 4-pane sash, slender pilasters, and a roll moulded cornice above the central shop front. The three-storey building has No. 10A on the upper floors, featuring a first-floor oriel bow window that was renewed in the late 20th century with flat glazed units, and a 2-light window above with a mullion and transom, flat stone lintel, and projecting stone sill. The roof has stone coping on the left gable that rests on a moulded kneeler. The end ridge chimneys are stone on the left, raised in brick, and tall and rendered on the right, both on the ridge and in the middle of the front slope. The interior of the passage shows a 20th-century door to No. 10A, but the interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
8. 10 and 10a, Galgate 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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