Great Gateway to Kepier Hospital (That Part Within the City of Durham)
GREAT GATEWAY TO KEPIER HOSPITAL (THAT PART WITHIN THE CITY OF DURHAM), PROVIDENCE ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1121391
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Great Gateway to Kepier Hospital (That Part Within the City of Durham)
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT GATEWAY TO KEPIER HOSPITAL (THAT PART WITHIN THE CITY OF DURHAM), PROVIDENCE ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1121391
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Great Gateway to Kepier Hospital (That Part Within the City of Durham)
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT GATEWAY TO KEPIER HOSPITAL (THAT PART WITHIN THE CITY OF DURHAM), PROVIDENCE ROW
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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:
- GREAT GATEWAY TO KEPIER HOSPITAL (THAT PART WITHIN THE CITY OF DURHAM), PROVIDENCE ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Belmont
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 28212 43266
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PROVIDENCE ROW NZ 24 SE (North end, off)
4/374 Great Gateway to 19/2/70 Kepier Hospital (that part within the City of Durham)
GV I
Hospital gatehouse. C14. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; pantiled roof, with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. T-plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central 2-centred arch on shafts has drip string with blind quatrefoil frieze above; 2-centred-arched window above with casements under dripmould; top string to second storey under gable. Buttresses with plinths and offsets flank arch. Left bay has renewed boarded door under stone lintel with blocked small window immediately above; chamfered lintel to small first floor window. Right bay has small elliptical-headed opening on ground floor and small square casement above. Cyma-moulded plinth of buttresses continues along part of right bay. Gateway has 2 quadripartite vaults on corbels, and central arch; bosses eroded and missing; small openings to side walls. Rear elevation has polygonal stair turret to north of arch; stone stair to first- floor Tudor-arched doorway; carved kneeler on north gable.
Interior shows segmental-headed fireplace in north room; double-chamfered arch on responds in south room; some 2-centred-arched doorways in upper rooms; part of spiral stair in turret. Stonework heavily eroded.
A scheduled ancient monument.
Listing NGR: NZ2821043260
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110430
- 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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