CROWN COURT
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CROWN COURT
List entry Number: 1322878
Location
CROWN COURT, OLD ELVET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: County Durham
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 06-May-1952
Date of most recent amendment: 10-Mar-1988
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 110360
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Details
DURHW AND FRAMWELLGATE OLD ELVET
NZ 2742 SE (South side)
Crown Court (formerly
15/308 listed as Assize Courts
6/5/52 in Court Lane
GV II*
Crown Courts. Circa 1811 by George Moneypenny and Ignatius Bonomi; interior
altered c.1870 bv W. Crozier. Sandstone ashlar; graduated Lakeland slate roof
on main block, Welsh slate on wings. Centre block and flanking wings. Italianate
style. 2-storey, 7-bay main block with pedimented projecting 3-bay centre, and
end bays breaking forward. 4 giant engaged Tuscan columns define the centre.
3 part-glazed, studded 6-panel double doors in architraves in banded rusticated
ground floor. Margined casements, cross in taller first floor, with upper lights
altered, those in outer bays in 2-storey recesses. First-floor centre windows
have wrought-iron guards. Top entablature and blocking course. Central chamfered
square clock tower with deep cornice and leaded dome. Tall, single-storey, 3-bay
wings with projecting banded centre bay forming voussoirs to tall carriage arches
with lattice barred tympana above continuous stone impost bands. Small casements
next to centre block, otherwise blank with parapet above eaves band. Very tall
arcaded and deeply-corniced chimneys above inner bays. 4 steps to central
entrance terrace with wrought- and cast-iron side rails and stone corner piers
with lampholders.
Rear elevation shows tall bowed courtroom exterior with classical detail.
Listing NGR: NZ2784542203
Selected Sources
National Grid Reference: NZ 27845 42203
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