71 AND 72, SADDLER STREET

71 AND 72, SADDLER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1161243
Date first listed:
30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:
71 AND 72, SADDLER STREET
Statutory Address:
71 AND 72, SADDLER STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1161243
Date first listed:
30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:
71 AND 72, SADDLER STREET
Statutory Address 1:
71 AND 72, SADDLER STREET

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

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:
71 AND 72, SADDLER STREET

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:
NZ2741942473

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE SADDLER STREET
NZ 2742 SW (West side)

14/402 Nos. 71 and 72
30.4.71
GV II

2 houses, later united; now 2 shops and house above; further house to rear in
plot behind No. 71. Late C17 front range; C17 rear building; C20 shops.
Front range English garden wall bond brick (mostly 7 and one) with painted
ashlar dressings; roof not visible; brick chimney.

Rear building: English garden wall bond brick (6 and one) link to timber-
framed building with rendered ground floor on old sandstone rubble plinth;
brick above. Roof not visible. Front range 4 storeys, 5 windows: bracketed
fascia at left to shop with high raised panel over 6-panel passage door with
high patterned overlight at extreme left. Mid C20 shop at right. Upper floors
have blank bay at left; sash windows have glazing bars, projecting stone sills
and flat stone lintels except for 3 on first floor at left without sills or
glazing bars, and top floor lintels which are header courses. 3-brick-wide
floor bands except on first floor; eaves band. Left end chimmey. Moulded
round rainwater head and drain with lugged fixings at left on fourth bay.

Rear link: 3 storeys, 3 windows, some sashes and some casements; floor strings.
Rear building 3 storeys, 3 windows to passage/yard; first floor jettied on
exposed beam ends and bressumer with carpenter's marks. External rendered
chimney stack on gable end. Interior not inspected.


Listing NGR: NZ2741942473

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
110457
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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