ST JOHN'S COLLEGE

ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, 3, SOUTH BAILEY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1161313
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: ST JOHN'S COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, 3, SOUTH BAILEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1161313
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: ST JOHN'S COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, 3, SOUTH BAILEY

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:: ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, 3, SOUTH BAILEY

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 27401 41964

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE SOUTH BAILEY NZ 2741 NW (East side)

16/420 No. 3 6/5/52 (St. John's College)

GV II*

House, now college. Early C18. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible; brick chimneys. Basement and 3 storeys, 7 bays, the central 3 projecting. 6 steps and terrace to central renewed double door under large hood on carved brackets. Channelled rustication throughout; keyed voussoirs over sash windows with glazing bars. Cyma-moulded coping on basement plinth; prominent second-floor cornice; parapet with roll moulding below flat top. Hipped roof. Spear-headed area railings and plain handrails.

Interior: panelled hall with high-quality open-string stair which has ramped grip handrail on slender Doric balusters with bud plinths, and fluted Corinthian newels; delicately-carved tread ends; one curved flight and wide upper gallery. 6-panelled doors in architraves with deep reveals. Ceiling has dentilled cornice and central leaf rosette with encircling oak leaves. Originally the town house of the Eden family.

Listing NGR: NZ2741841990

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Legacy System number:: 110477
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.