Abbey View
ABBEY VIEW, 42, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310062
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey View
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY VIEW, 42, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310062
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey View
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY VIEW, 42, SOUTH 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.
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:
- ABBEY VIEW, 42, SOUTH 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:
- NZ 27088 42190
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE SOUTH STREET NZ 2742 SE (West side)
14/448 No. 42 (Abbey View)
GV II
House. 1929 by W.Y. Jones for T.H. Burbridge. Timber frame with rendered infill; roof of French tiles with pebble-dash rendered chimney. Vernacular revival style. 3 storeys and attic; 2 bays. Right bay timber-framed under returned gable. Ground floor set back at acute angle to building line. Jacobean-style door at right, with small round light in carved sun, in chamfered surround with tongue stops. Full-width 3-light casement window with opening transom lights under moulded bressumer of jettied first floor. Shaped wood brackets support 2-storey oriel flanked by 2-light windows on first floor and big diagonal braces above. Shaped wood brackets support attic storey with blind quatrefoil below 2-light window. Plain left bay contains 3-light casement on ground floor, 2-light on upper floors, with painted projecting sills and dripmould lintels; lead glazing. Square-headed 2-light dormer. Massive base to left end chimney. High-quality wrought-iron work includes strap hinges; boot-scraper in angle formed with house at right; rainwater head.
Listing NGR: NZ2708842190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110506
- 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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