St Chad's College St Chad's College Lightfoot House
ST CHAD'S COLLEGE LIGHTFOOT HOUSE, 19 (NORTH), NORTH BAILEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121425
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Chad's College St Chad's College Lightfoot House
- Statutory Address:
- ST CHAD'S COLLEGE LIGHTFOOT HOUSE, 19 (NORTH), NORTH BAILEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121425
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Chad's College St Chad's College Lightfoot House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST CHAD'S COLLEGE LIGHTFOOT HOUSE, 19 (NORTH), NORTH BAILEY
- Statutory Address 2:
- ST CHAD'S COLLEGE, 19 (NORTH), NORTH BAILEY
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:
- ST CHAD'S COLLEGE LIGHTFOOT HOUSE, 19 (NORTH), NORTH BAILEY
- Statutory Address:
- ST CHAD'S COLLEGE, 19 (NORTH), NORTH BAILEY
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 27451 42103
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NORTH BAILEY NZ 2742 SW (East side)
14/257 No. 19 (north part) 6/5/52 (St. Chad's College) (Lightfoot House)
GV II
House, now college. Early C18, raised C19. Painted incised stucco with painted ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof with red brick chimneys. 3 storeys and attics, 3 windows. 2 internal steps up to 6-panel door at left in architrave under deep hood. Projecting stone sills to 2 sashes with glazing bars on ground floor, 3 late C19 sashes on each upper floor and 2 bargeboarded gabled dormers with finials. Boot-scraper recess beside door. 2 cellar chutes with iron grilles.
Interior: open-string stair on lower flights, closed above, has ramped grip handrail on vase-and-column balusters and pulvinated string; carved tread ends in lower dog-leg flights; open well above. Newels have moulded pendants; ramped dado rail.
Listing NGR: NZ2745142103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110308
- 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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