38, OLD ELVET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1310454
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: 38, OLD ELVET
Statutory Address:: 38, OLD ELVET

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Date:: 2001-02-23
Reference:: IOE01/03606/07
Rights:: © Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1310454
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: 38, OLD ELVET
Statutory Address 1:: 38, OLD ELVET

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:: 38, OLD ELVET

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:: NZ2784442320

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE

NZ 2742 SE 15/329 6/5/52

OLD ELVET (North side) No. 38

GV II

House. Mid C18, altered and extended upwards in early C19. Mottled reddish brick in English garden wall bond (3 and 1); Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 2 bays. At left 6-panel door in architrave under bracketed cornice hood. 12-pane sashes under soldier arches. 4- and 3-brick floor strings. No visible chimneys.

Interior reported to have open-string dogleg stair with moulded handrail on 2 column-and-vase balusters per tread.

Source: F.F. Johnson. Historic Staircases of Durham City Durham 1970.

Listing NGR: NZ2784442320

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Legacy System number:: 110382
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Johnson, F F , Historic Staircases of Durham City, (1970)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.