CASTLE WALL BEHIND NO.3

CASTLE WALL BEHIND NO.3, NORTH BAILEY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1322845
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: CASTLE WALL BEHIND NO.3
Statutory Address:: CASTLE WALL BEHIND NO.3, NORTH BAILEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1322845
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: CASTLE WALL BEHIND NO.3
Statutory Address 1:: CASTLE WALL BEHIND NO.3, NORTH BAILEY

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CASTLE WALL BEHIND NO.3, NORTH BAILEY

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 27494 42340

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NORTH BAILEY NZ 2742 SW and NZ 2742 SE (East side)

14 and 15/247 Castle wall 6/5/52 behind No. 3

GV I

Castle wall with base of angle tower. C12. Coursed squared sandstone. Wall and large buttress, c.7m. high; the angle tower is square-cornered, projects about 2 1/2 m. and is 3m. across east face.

Source: W.T. Jones, Durham University Journal new series Vols XXII and XXIII; Clack and Gosling Eds. Archaeology in the North Durham 1976 PP 138-41.

Listing NGR: NZ2749442340

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 110299
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Durham University Journal' in Durham University Journal, ()
'Durham University Journal' in Durham University Journal, ()
Clack, , Gosling, , 'Report of the Northern Archaeological Society' in Archaeology in the North, (1976), 138-141

Legal

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