St Annes Court
ST ANNES COURT, CASTLE CHARE, DURHAM, DH1 4TZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159303
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Annes Court
- Statutory Address:
- ST ANNES COURT, CASTLE CHARE, DURHAM, DH1 4TZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159303
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Annes Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST ANNES COURT, CASTLE CHARE, DURHAM, DH1 4TZ
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 ANNES COURT, CASTLE CHARE, DURHAM, DH1 4TZ
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 27128 42609
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/06/2017
NZ 2742 NW
9/42
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
CASTLE CRANE (South side, off)
St Annes Court
(Formerly listed as Castle Chare Community Arts Centre)
GV
II*
House, later convent; now apartments. Early C18. Incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings and plinth; chamfered quoins; Welsh slate roof with brick chimney. Rear shows Flemish bond brick with moulded floor strings and dog-tooth cornice. Three storeys, three bays. Central door has diagonal panelling in lower half under four panels; wide architrave. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars. Parapet with cornice. Wing at right of three storeys, one bay, set back; plain surround to renewed door under blocked overlight; small window above.
Double-span roof to main house has central and side brick chimneys, and is hipped at left.
Interior: main staircase in left part has fat turned balusters supporting wide, ramped and wreathed grip handrail, fluted rectangular newels and curtail. Panelled dado without rail to first flight. Front left room on second floor has raised fielded panelling. Rear wing has ground-floor room at higher level on slope; this has much rococo decoration in plaster and carved wood. Enriched mouldings to shutters and doors; swags and garlands in panels and covering ceiling; similar decoration to chimney-piece with bracketed cornice and marble and marbled stone inner surrounds. Ionic Venetian case to garden door with broad glazing bars in overlight and sidelights. Tall staircase window. Many six-panelled doors with L hinges and wide architraves; several C18 chimney pieces, some with later cast iron grates. Brick-vaulted cellar has re-used grooved wood in lintel. Roof has apex collars to trusses, of which feet are hidden by floor; staggered purlins.
Listing NGR: NZ2712842609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110090
- 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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