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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Date:: 2001-03-20
Reference:: IOE01/03758/28
Rights:: © Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 110294
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.