38 and 39, Saddler Street

38 and 39, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 3NU

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121357
Date first listed:
30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:
38 and 39, Saddler Street
Statutory Address:
38 and 39, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 3NU
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121357
Date first listed:
30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:
38 and 39, Saddler Street
Statutory Address 1:
38 and 39, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 3NU

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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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
38 and 39, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 3NU

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:
NZ2745942420

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 August 2025 to amend description due to a change in building use and to reformat the text to current standards

NZ 2742 SW
14/392

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
SADDLER STREET (east side)
Nos. 38 and 39

30.4.71

GV
II

House, a bank at time of listing. Circa 1700; C20 bank. English garden wall bond brick, mostly eight and one, with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, three bays. six-panelled door at left in lugged architrave under deeply-pulvinated frieze and dentilled pediment. Bank at right. Upper floors have late C19 sashes, except for that at right of top floor which has broad glazing bars, with soldier course lintels and projecting stone sills. Three-brick ground floor string, the central brick round-moulded. Four-brick band at base of parapet with coved stone coping.

Interior: dog-leg stair has open string and continuous carved tread ends; steeply-ramped grip handrail on two column balusters per tread, ramped dado; entrance hall has boarded dado with rail.

Listing NGR: NZ2745942420

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
110447
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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