Number 173 and Wall and Outbuilding Attached

NUMBER 173 AND WALL AND OUTBUILDING ATTACHED, GILESGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1160000
Date first listed:
30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:
Number 173 and Wall and Outbuilding Attached
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 173 AND WALL AND OUTBUILDING ATTACHED, GILESGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1160000
Date first listed:
30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:
Number 173 and Wall and Outbuilding Attached
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 173 AND WALL AND OUTBUILDING ATTACHED, GILESGATE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 173 AND WALL AND OUTBUILDING ATTACHED, GILESGATE

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 28175 42687

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE GILESGATE NZ 2842 NE (South side)

11/180 No. 173 and wall and 30/4/71 outbuilding attached

GV II

House. Circa 1760. 2 builds. Flemish bond brick with painted ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof; left extension English garden wall bond brick with renewed pantiled roof. 2-storey, 3-bay main block + 1-bay left section. First build has central 4-panelled door in fluted architrave with bracketed hood. Wedge stone lintels and flat stone sills to ground floor windows, projecting stone sills and smaller wedge stone lintels to those on first floor, all renewed. 2 end brick chimneys. Second build at left has blocked elliptical brick arch with stone impost blocks; window above has header course lintel and projecting stone sill to renewed sashes. Boot scraper recess beside door. Wall attached to left contains C20 iron gate and ends in low buttressed outhouse, with boarded pigeon holes in rear gable.

Listing NGR: NZ2817542687

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Legacy System number:
110232
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.

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