47, 48 and 49, Old Elvet
47, 48 AND 49, OLD ELVET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121416
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 47, 48 and 49, Old Elvet
- Statutory Address:
- 47, 48 AND 49, OLD ELVET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121416
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 47, 48 and 49, Old Elvet
- Statutory Address 1:
- 47, 48 AND 49, 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:
- 47, 48 AND 49, 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 27767 42352
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/06/2017
NZ 2742 SE
15/335
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
OLD ELVET (North side)
Nos. 47, 48 and 49
(Formerly listed as Nos. 47 and 48, previously listed as Nos. 48 and 49)
6/5/52
GV
II*
Incorporating No. 49. Terrace of three houses, now two. Early C18. Dark red brick, in English garden wall bond, on stone-coped plinth. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. three storeys and attic, eleven bays in all: 2, 5 and 4. In bays three and four from left, steps up to six-panel paired doors with tall overlights in Doric doorcase. Sash windows with glazing bars, in box frames under segmental brick arches, with tall shaped and reeded stone keys rising to four-brick floor bands (except on top floor plain soldier arches). High-pitched roof with swept eaves and deep soffit; end, centre and rear stacks. Segment-headed double and single dormers inserted.
Interiors reported to have dogleg open-string stairs with ramped, moulded handrails on slender column balusters; ramped, panelled dado.
Source: F.F. Johnson. Historic Staircases in Durham City Durham 1970.
Listing NGR: NZ2776742352
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110388
- 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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