Three Tuns Hotel
THREE TUNS HOTEL, NEW ELVET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322883
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Three Tuns Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THREE TUNS HOTEL, NEW ELVET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322883
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Three Tuns Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THREE TUNS HOTEL, NEW ELVET
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:
- THREE TUNS HOTEL, NEW ELVET
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:
- NZ2765042297
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NEW ELVET
NZ 2742 SE (East side)
15/242 Three Tuns Hotel
GV II
3 houses, now hotel. Late C18 incorporating earlier building. Painted incised
stucco with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick
chimneys. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Half-glazed double door at left with side and
overlights in doorcase of narrow fluted pilasters and entablature. Blocked
door in Tuscan doorcase in third bay. Oriels above doors have cornices and
low-pitched hipped roofs; similar treatment to 2-storey canted bay window in
fifth bay. Other windows late C19 sashes with projecting stone sills.
Transverse ridge chimneys in second bay and at left of fifth bay; chimney in
front of ridge in centre and on rear slopein third bay.
Interior: principal stair is open-string, with delicately-carved tread-ends;
slender turned balusters support ramped handrail; wide wreath and curtail;
ramped panelled dado. Second stair on upper floors at right: closed string,
boarded-over balustrade. Central early C19 stair on upper floors. Vertical
studded timber frame in wall between fourth and fifth bays. Entrance hall has
C18 chimney piece with cornice.
Listing NGR: NZ2765042297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110294
- 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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