3, THE COLLEGE
3, THE COLLEGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159478
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 3, THE COLLEGE
- Statutory Address:
- 3, THE COLLEGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159478
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 3, THE COLLEGE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, THE COLLEGE
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:
- 3, THE COLLEGE
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 27395 41990
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE THE COLLEGE NZ 2741 NW (East side)
16/79 No. 3 (formerly listed 6/5/52 as houseadjoining cottage)
GV II First use not known. Now house. Medieval site; present building may incorporate medieval fabric, but largely C18 with C19 alterations. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; coursed squared sandstone canted bay; rendered part at right; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 2 storeys and attic; 4 bays. Side steps up to 6-panelled door and patterned overlight in second-bay slender doorcase with bracketed hood. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars in first bay, above door and on first floor in right end bays. Boarded door in centre of right end bay has horizontal sliding sashes at left and sash with vertical glazing bars at right. Third bay contains prominent 2-storey canted projection with stone-mullioned-and-transomed windows, floor and parapet strings, steeply-coped parapet. Roof has 3-light square-headed dormer.
Interior: open-string dog-leg stair has ramped moulded handrail on column balusters, 2 per tread, with rectangular newel and curtail but no wreath. Patterned tread ends except where not easily seen. Gothic-style alcoves. Barrel- vaulted cellars with drain to street in cobbled floor.
Listing NGR: NZ2739541990
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110127
- 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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