COSIN'S ALMSHOUSES

COSIN'S ALMSHOUSES, PALACE GREEN, DH1 3RL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121385
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: COSIN'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: COSIN'S ALMSHOUSES, PALACE GREEN, DH1 3RL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121385
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: COSIN'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: COSIN'S ALMSHOUSES, PALACE GREEN, DH1 3RL

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

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:: COSIN'S ALMSHOUSES, PALACE GREEN, DH1 3RL

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 27414 42234

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/02/2017

NZ 2742 SW 14/361

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN (East side) Cosin's Almshouses

(Formerly listed as Almshouses Restaurant, previously listed as Old Museum)

6/5/52

GV II

Former almshouses. 1668 by Longstaffe for Bishop Cosin. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. Two storeys, five bays. Central renewed door in stop-chamfered Tudor-arched surround under high label mould. Double-chamfered surrounds, most renewed, and stone mullions to three-light ground floor and two-light first floor windows. Renewed inscription over door with painted arms.

Interior: first floor removed in C19.

Listing NGR: NZ2741442234

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Legacy System number:: 110416
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.