45 and 46, Saddler Street
45 and 46, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 3NU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322896
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 45 and 46, Saddler Street
- Statutory Address:
- 45 and 46, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 3NU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322896
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 45 and 46, Saddler Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 45 and 46, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 3NU
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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:
- 45 and 46, Saddler Street, Durham, DH1 3NU
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:
- NZ2747042384
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 August 2025 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
NZ 2742 SW
14/396
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
SADDLER STREET (East side)
Nos. 45 and 46
(Formerly listed as Nos. 45 and 46 (Department of Archaeology), previously listed as University lecture rooms, Nos. 46 and 47)
30.4.71
GV
II*
House. Incorporates part of North Gate of castle; university department, at time of listing, medieval gate; C17 house with early C19 alterations. Gate: coursed squared sandstone. Incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, two wide bays and two storey narrow third bay. Renewed double door in deep reveal at left of second bay; early C19 nine-panel double door in right end bay, with patterned overlight, in deep panelled reveal of narrow doorcase with corner paterae. Sash windows with glazing bars, three on ground floor renewed; projecting stone sill to window in right bay; second floor sill band; wide first-floor band, possibly altered shop fascia. Steeply-pitched roof.
Interior: fragments of barbican of North Gate can be seen in several basement cupboards and rooms: three and four chamfered courses of plinth, and several courses of masonry. C17 closed-string open-well stair through four floors has wide moulded handrail on graduated barley-sugar twist balusters and square panelled newels; handrail moulding continuous with newel caps. Secondary stair of early C19 type in right end bay. Graded for North Gate and for staircase.
Source: F.F. Johnson, Historic Staircases in Durham City. Durham 1970.
Listing NGR: NZ2747042384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110451
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Johnson, F F, Historic Staircases of Durham City, (1970)
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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