227 listed buildings, 6 of them Grade I

Market CrossGrade I listedBlagravesGrade I listedGolden Lion Public HouseGrade II listedHayloft and Dovecote Approximately 40 Metres East of Spring Lodge with Sheds, Kennels and WallGrade II listedBasin to South of Bowes MuseumGrade II listed+10See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

c. 1893

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Galgate40 listed · 1 II*

The Bank19 listed · 2 II*

Market Place16 listed · 4 II*

Horse Market15 listed

Newgate15 listed

Thorngate9 listed

King Street3 listed

Of the 227 entries, 121 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Search the rest on Historic England’s list →

Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 34 entries were listed in 1950, 5 of the 6 Grade I buildings among them. 124 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Barnard Castle: ringwork, shell keep castle, chapel and dovecote

1 registered park or garden

Bowes MuseumGrade II

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

George Brown

Bob Chatt

James Welford

Albert Evans

Joshua Harold Burn

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AE

Albert Evans1874–1966 · English footballer, born 1874 (1874–1966)

JB

Joshua Harold Burn1892–1981 · British pharmacologist (1892-1981)

George Brown1835–1917 · English missionary, anthropologist and natural history specimen colle…

BC

Bob Chatt1869–1895 · English footballer (1869-1895)

James Welford1869–1945 · English footballer (1869-1945)

Everyone born in Barnard Castle → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Barnard Castle: per resident it has more than 96% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 227 listed buildings, 6 of them Grade I. Its Grade I buildings cluster together: 4 of them stand within 400 m of Barnard Castle. Only 9 of the 913 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969. Most entries on the list, 62%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 5 people born here before 1900, the best known include Albert Evans (1874), Joshua Harold Burn (1892) and George Brown (1835). The rest is about typical: it also has a scheduled monument; and 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.