25, OLD ELVET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121409
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 25, OLD ELVET
Statutory Address:: 25, OLD ELVET

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Date:: 2001-02-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121409
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 25, OLD ELVET
Statutory Address 1:: 25, OLD ELVET

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:: 25, OLD ELVET

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 27938 42248

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE OLD ELVET NZ 2742 SE (North side)

15/318 No. 25 30/4/71 GV II

House, mid-late C18 with alterations. Incised stucco with plinth. Welsh slate roof with rendered brick copings and chimney. 3 storeys, 3 bays, irregular. 5-panel door in hollow-chamfered surround under swell frieze and stone cornice hood on modern iron brackets. 2-storey canted outer bays. Stair windows at intermediate levels to left of door. All windows sashes, some early C19 but without glazing bars. Right end chimney. Gable copings on kneelers. 2 C20 wide dormers. Boot scraper recess by door.

Interior reported to have 2 staircases, one open-string and dog-legged with ramped handrail on column and vase balusters; the second at rear incorporating re-used parts of lower flight of main stair.

Included for group value.

Source: F.J. Johnson. Historic Staircases of Durham City Durham 197O.

Listing NGR: NZ2795942240

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Legacy System number:: 110371
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Johnson, F F , Historic Staircases of Durham City, (1970)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.