DRYBURN HOUSE (DRYBURN HOSPITAL DOCTORS' RESIDENCE)

DRYBURN HOUSE (DRYBURN HOSPITAL DOCTORS' RESIDENCE), NORTH ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121437
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: DRYBURN HOUSE (DRYBURN HOSPITAL DOCTORS' RESIDENCE)
Statutory Address:: DRYBURN HOUSE (DRYBURN HOSPITAL DOCTORS' RESIDENCE), NORTH ROAD

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Date:: 2000-07-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121437
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: DRYBURN HOUSE (DRYBURN HOSPITAL DOCTORS' RESIDENCE)
Statutory Address 1:: DRYBURN HOUSE (DRYBURN HOSPITAL DOCTORS' RESIDENCE), NORTH ROAD

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:: DRYBURN HOUSE (DRYBURN HOSPITAL DOCTORS' RESIDENCE), NORTH ROAD

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 26334 43859

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NORTH ROAD NZ 24 SE (West side)

4/287 Dryburn House 19/2/70 (Dryburn Hospital Doctors' Residence)

GV II

House, now hospital Doctors' Residence. Early C19 for W.L. Wharton, sheriff of Durham. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with rendered chimneys. 2 storeys, 5 bays, the central 3 in a shallow bowed projection. Sash windows, some with glazing bars, have projecting stone lintels and sills; first floor band; deep gutter cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof of 3 ranges linked at right end has chimneys on rear of front ridge and on rear ridge. Right return has Tuscan tetrastyle porte- cochere with half-glazed door with chamfered alternate-block jambs and voussoirs; similar surround to window above.

Listing NGR: NZ2630843873

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Legacy System number:: 110339
Legacy System:: LBS

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