Walls Attached to Numbers 12 to 15
WALLS ATTACHED TO NUMBERS 12 TO 15, THE COLLEGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120695
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Walls Attached to Numbers 12 to 15
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS ATTACHED TO NUMBERS 12 TO 15, THE COLLEGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120695
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Walls Attached to Numbers 12 to 15
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS ATTACHED TO NUMBERS 12 TO 15, THE COLLEGE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS ATTACHED TO NUMBERS 12 TO 15, THE COLLEGE
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 27261 42110
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE THE COLLEGE NZ 2742 SW (west end, off)
14/354 Walls attached to Nos. 12-15
GV I
Castle walls. C12, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. High wall with flat wide buttresses and round-arched opening of Lying House (q.v. in The Colleg), and slit openings of 'soldiers' walk' - an intra-mural passage allowing separate access along wall without entering Priory garden. Also incorporates the only visible remains of the Priory infirmary, now demolished above ground level except for a wall incorporated in the stables north of the Lying House. Similarly- buttressed high stretch of wall extends northwards from west range of the castle.
Listing NGR: NZ2725442112
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110140
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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