7, THE COLLEGE
7, THE COLLEGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1311001
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 7, THE COLLEGE
- Statutory Address:
- 7, THE COLLEGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1311001
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 7, THE COLLEGE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, THE COLLEGE
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:
- 7, THE COLLEGE
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 27312 41984
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE THE COLLEGE NZ 2741 NW (South side)
16/84 No. 7 (formerly listed 6/5/52 as house adjoining the Song School)
GV II*
Master of Garner's checker, later prebendal house. Medieval fabric with C17 and C18 alterations. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; brick chimneys. Basement and 2 storeys, 8 bays. Basement has segmental brick arch at left over recessed boarded door; similar door in shouldered arch at right of third bay. Steps up to terrace in front of 6-panel door in architrave with pulvinated frieze and prominent cornice; eroded coats of arms in panel over door. Sash windows with glazing bars have varying surrounds, some flat stone lintels and sills with alternate-block jambs; traces of removed label moulds, wider than present windows. Corbelled-out parapet has shaped sloped coping. 2 round-moulded rainwater heads. Flat-coped walls flank door terrace. Contains entrance to No. 8 (q.v.) in right return. Roof flat at left and steeply-pitched over 2 right bays. Interior: hall and some rooms have bolection-moulded panelling; blocked lugged chimney piece in front hall wall; deeply-moulded beams in ground-floor ceiling and deeply-moulded square plaster panels. Closed-string dog-leg stair has ramped moulded handrail on slender turned balusters and column newel; plainer rear stair has curved landing. First floor has corbelled wall posts, some covered in moulded plaster. Many chimney pieces of circa 1700.
Listing NGR: NZ2731641982
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110132
- 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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