The Grove (Durham School Bursar's Office and Common Room)
THE GROVE (DURHAM SCHOOL BURSAR'S OFFICE AND COMMON ROOM), QUARRYHEADS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121393
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Grove (Durham School Bursar's Office and Common Room)
- Statutory Address:
- THE GROVE (DURHAM SCHOOL BURSAR'S OFFICE AND COMMON ROOM), QUARRYHEADS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121393
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Grove (Durham School Bursar's Office and Common Room)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GROVE (DURHAM SCHOOL BURSAR'S OFFICE AND COMMON ROOM), QUARRYHEADS LANE
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.
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:
- THE GROVE (DURHAM SCHOOL BURSAR'S OFFICE AND COMMON ROOM), QUARRYHEADS LANE
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 26963 41993
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE QUARRYHEADS LANE NZ 24 SE and NZ 2642 SE (East side)
4 and 13/380 The Grove (Durham 6/5/52 School Bursar's office and Common Room)
GV II
House, now part of school. C17 and C18. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; rear wing rubble below, brick above. Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings; fishscale pattern on rear wing; brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central renewed door in C19 gabled porch has surround of chamfered keyed voussoirs and alternate-block jambs. Similar surrounds to first floor windows with projecting stone sills; all sashes, 2 with glazing bars; ground floor projecting square bays inserted. Roof has moulded kneelers and 3 ridge chimneys. Rear wing has steeply-pitched roof.
Historical note: the home of the actor Stephen Kemble in the early C19.
Listing NGR: NZ2696341993
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110435
- 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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