50, SOUTH STREET

50, SOUTH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121340
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
50, SOUTH STREET
Statutory Address:
50, SOUTH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121340
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
50, SOUTH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
50, SOUTH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
50, SOUTH STREET

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 27096 42241

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE SOUTH STREET NZ 2742 SE (West side)

14/454 No. 50

GV II

House. Dated 1859. English garden wall bond brick with snecked sandstone plinth and ashlar quoins and dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof with yellow terracotta crestings. Tudor style. 2 storeys and attics; 2 bays. Ledged boarded partly-glazed door at left in chamfered Tudor-arched surround; 4-centred arch to right of that contains 9-panelled door, with Gothic tracery and 2 cusped lights above, in moulded surround with tongue-stopped chamfer and hexagonal stops to label mould. Carved spandrels to doors and to paired sashes at right in irregular alternate-block jambs, sloping sills and carved Tudor heads. Oriel above, dated 1859 on stone bracket, has pierced quatrefoil balustrade. Sill string curves down to square stops flanking window heads. Narrow paired sashes above door have chamfered alternate-block surrounds and prominent bracketed sills. Continuous eaves string with animal-head stops. Brick parapet has sloped stone coping terminating in gablets with fleur-de-lis finials. Steeply-pitched roofs of gabled dormers have patterned bargeboards, that at right flanked by shafts supporting vine-carved cornice. Roof has fleur-de-lis crestings; single left front ridge chimney with castellated yellow octagonal pot; quoins to right chimney; both with sloped copings.

Listing NGR: NZ2709642241

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
110512
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.

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