ABBEY HOUSE (DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY)

ABBEY HOUSE (DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY), PALACE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121387
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: ABBEY HOUSE (DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY)
Statutory Address:: ABBEY HOUSE (DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY), PALACE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121387
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: ABBEY HOUSE (DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY)
Statutory Address 1:: ABBEY HOUSE (DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY), PALACE GREEN

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ABBEY HOUSE (DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY), PALACE GREEN

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 27421 42190

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN NZ 2742 SW (East side)

14/364 Abbey House 6/5/52 (Department of Theology)

GV II

House, now university department. Includes former Abbey Cottage, Dun Cow Lane. Late C17 early/18 century, incorporating earlier fragments. Sandstone ashlar front, rendered right return to Dun Cow Lane and brick rear and left gables; Welsh slate roof with brick chimney and stone right gable coping. Basement, 3 storeys and attics; 5 bays. Central 6-panel door in stone architrave; 3-pane overlight under cornice resting on paired carved brackets. Flat stone lintels and flat stone sills to renewed sashes with glazing bars in wide boxes. Parapet has cyma-moulded coping. Left return has shaped gable with brick coping and end chimney; right return has earlier stone wall revealed with round-headed blocked door; irregular-block right jamb. Shaped rear gable has pilastered chimney.

Interior: panelled entrance hall dado with ramped rail; similar dado on stair, with 2 column balusters per tread and fluted rectangular newels, the topmost with leaf-carved panel, supporting ramped grip handrail. Block tread ends. Main ground-floor room panelled. Rear brick addition not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ2742542191

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Legacy System number:: 110419
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.