Durham School South Building, Frontage Building and Gateway
DURHAM SCHOOL SOUTH BUILDING, FRONTAGE BUILDING AND GATEWAY, QUARRYHEADS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310230
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Durham School South Building, Frontage Building and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- DURHAM SCHOOL SOUTH BUILDING, FRONTAGE BUILDING AND GATEWAY, QUARRYHEADS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310230
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Durham School South Building, Frontage Building and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- DURHAM SCHOOL SOUTH BUILDING, FRONTAGE BUILDING AND GATEWAY, QUARRYHEADS LANE
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:
- DURHAM SCHOOL SOUTH BUILDING, FRONTAGE BUILDING AND GATEWAY, QUARRYHEADS LANE
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 26943 41965
Details
QUARRYHEADS LANE NZ 24 SE (West side)
4/379 Durham School South Building, Frontage building and Gateway
GV II
School buildings. South building 1843-4 by Salvin and Pickering incorporating an earlier house. Frontage building of slightly later date. Gateway 1927 as memorial to Graham Campbell Kerr. Roughly-coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings in older parts; hammer-dressed squared stone in later parts, with similar dressings. Welsh slate roofs with stone copings and stacks, leaded belfry spire. Modified Gothic style.
South building at left 2 storeys, 5 gabled bays, the 2 at right projecting. Small Tudor-arched door at right of 3rd bay. Two-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, those on ground floor under continuous drip string raised to form hoodmoulds above 2 right windows; 4-centred relieving arches above. First-floor left windowsin half-dormer gables except for 1 small window at left of 3rd bay, and round small lights in right gable peaks. Coped plinth, alternating quoins. Large square gable footstones. Left return shows ground-floor windows in raised ashlar panels.
Frontage building 2 storeys, 5 irregular gabled bays. Large buttress at left. In left bay a large projecting 2-centred-arched entrance, double-chamfered and with carved spandrels. Band of heraldic panels above. Mullioned-and-transomed windows, the upper ones with geometric traceried heads. To right of entrance a small extruded octagonal belfry tower with cusped louvred bell-openings in drum, and swept spire. Small openings or tracery panels in gables. Third bay projects and has taller gable with cresset finial; roll finials elsewhere.
Gateway triple screen with large double-chamfered, 2-centred central carriage archway and flanking pedestrian entrances with flattened Tudor-arched heads under hoodmoulds. Screen wall with rolled coping stepped up to low central gable.
Listing NGR: NZ2694341965
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110434
- 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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