THE KEEP (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE)

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:: THE KEEP (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE), PALACE GREEN

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 110412
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Durham, (1928), 64-91

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