The Keep (University College)
THE KEEP (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE), PALACE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1322868
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Keep (University College)
- Statutory Address:
- THE KEEP (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE), PALACE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1322868
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Keep (University College)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KEEP (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE), PALACE GREEN
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:
- THE KEEP (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE), 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 27395 42357
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN NZ 2742 SW (North side)
14/357 The Keep 6/5/52 (University College)
GV I
Keep; now college study bedrooms. 1345-81 for Bishop Hatfield, rebuilt 1839-40 by Salvin, for the University. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Irregular octagonal plan; high motte has 2 encircling retaining walls. High plinth with sloped coping; angle buttresses, corbelled out to parapet walkway. Irregular fenestration resembling the pattern of the original has windows of one, 2 and 3 lights with stone mullions, some square-headed and some cusped lights; some 2-centred arched with tracery. Retaining walls of squared rubble support motte on north, east and south sides.
Sources: V.C.H. 1928, reprint 1968; III, 64-91.
Listing NGR: NZ2739342356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110412
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Durham, (1928), 64-91
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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