42, OLD ELVET
42, OLD ELVET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121415
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- 42, OLD ELVET
- Statutory Address:
- 42, OLD ELVET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121415
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- 42, OLD ELVET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42, OLD ELVET
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:
- 42, 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:
- NZ2781642333
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
NZ 2742 SE
15/332
19/10/62
OLD ELVET
(North side)
No. 42
GV
II
House, now offices, early-mid C18. Painted brick with Welsh slate roof,
brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 2 wide bays , irregular. 6-panel door in
architrave with side pilasters, bracketed cornice and pediment. At right
a full-height canted bay, at left 2 windows on lower floors and tripartite
window above, all early C20 sashes in boxes with stone cills. Late C19
bracketed eaves cornice. High-pitched roof with swept eaves; rebuilt right
end chimneys on both sides of ridge.
Interior reported to have closed-string stair with ramped handrail and turned
balusters.
Source: F.F. Johnson. Historic Staircases of Durham City 1970
Listing NGR: NZ2781642333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110385
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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