University Library
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, PALACE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310414
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- University Library
- Statutory Address:
- UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, PALACE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310414
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- University Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, PALACE GREEN
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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:
- UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, PALACE GREEN
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 27336 42272
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN NZ 2742 SW (West side)
14/350 University Library
GV II
Lecture rooms, now library. 1882 by A.W. Blomfield. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; stone flagged roof with stone gable copings. Perpendicular style. 2 storeys of varying heights; 5 bays. Gabled first bay has steps up to double door with wrought iron hinges in hollow-chamfered Tudor-arched surround; carved spandrels and arcaded panel above in square- headed moulded surround. 4-light window, stone mullioned and transomed, above; first floor string; gable parapet string with corner gargoyles. Right end entrance bay has added Renaissance-style porch with Tuscan columns, entablature with low-relief UNIVERSITY LIBRARY in frieze, and obelisk finials; round arch of door has long bracket from key supporting hood. Shallow canted bay above has eaves string and moulded flat-coped parapet. Central block has 2 large mullioned-and-transomed windows on ground floor and three 2-light mullioned windows on first floor, with elliptical heads; first floor string; eaves string with corner gargoyles; roll-moulded parapet. Roof has roll-moulded gable copings; stone crown finials.
Interior: large open-well stair has twisted wrought-iron balustrade; first floor rooms have boarded dados, plaster walls and bracketed queen post and collar roofs.
Listing NGR: NZ2733642272
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110406
- 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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