Christchurch Durham hall and offices

Christchurch Durham hall and offices , Claypath, DH1 1RH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120681
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: Christchurch Durham hall and offices
Statutory Address:: Christchurch Durham hall and offices , Claypath, DH1 1RH

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Date:: 2004-01-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120681
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: Christchurch Durham hall and offices
Statutory Address 1:: Christchurch Durham hall and offices , Claypath, DH1 1RH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Christchurch Durham hall and offices , Claypath, DH1 1RH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: City of Durham
National Grid Reference:: NZ 27567 42703

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 February 2024 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards

NZ 2742 NE 10/58

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE CLAYPATH (North side) Christchurch Durham hall and offices

(Formerly listed as United Reformed Church hall and offices, previously listed as Claypath Chapel)

30.4.71

GV II

Presbyterian church, later successively Independent and Congregational. 1751. Dark red brick with sandstone plinth and rendered ashlar dressings: roof of concrete tiles. Two storeys, two bays and small one-storey porch at left to basement. Wide steps up to renewed central door, flanked by round-headed sashes with glazing bars in round brick arches and with projecting stone sills. Smaller windows above of same type and small rectangular perforated iron ventilator in gable peak. Left return has three large round-headed windows of same type. Interior shows ground floor offices and vestry with some fielded panelling; beaded panelling in entrance hall; front stair has turned newel with urn-shaped finial, grip handrail, fat square balusters on first flight; rear spiral stair by St. Pancras Ironwork Co., London, in Gothic-style cast iron.

Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ2756742703

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Legacy System number:: 110106
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.