THE ROYAL COUNTY HOTEL

THE ROYAL COUNTY HOTEL, 56, 57, 58 AND 59, OLD ELVET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322902
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: THE ROYAL COUNTY HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE ROYAL COUNTY HOTEL, 56, 57, 58 AND 59, OLD ELVET

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Date:: 2001-03-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322902
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: THE ROYAL COUNTY HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE ROYAL COUNTY HOTEL, 56, 57, 58 AND 59, OLD 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:: THE ROYAL COUNTY HOTEL, 56, 57, 58 AND 59, OLD 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:: NZ2767742378

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE

NZ 2742 SE 15/339 30.4.71 (No 59 only)

OLD ELVET (North side) Nos. 56, 57, 58 and 59 (The Royal County Hotel)

GV II

3 houses, now part of hotel. Nos. 56-58 early C19, No. 59 late C18, all with alterations. Incised stucco with plinth, Welsh slate roofs, brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 9 windows in all. Ground floors of Nos. 56-58 removed or altered for hotel purposes and to provide car park entrance. Scattered fenestration above, some later C19 sashes and an oriel, 2 wide early C20 first-floor oriels. Rebuilt stacks at junction of Nos. 56 and 57, and shared stack between Nos. 58 and 59. No. 59 is much less altered. Central C19 6-panel door in architrave with pulvinated frieze and pedimented hood on brackets. 2 early-C19 sashes in architraves at either side. On first floor 2 mid-C19 hip-roofed oriels and on second floor two tripartite windows. All windows sashes, intermediate glazing bars removed. Stone alternating quoins; moulded and modillioned stone eaves cornice. Nos. 56-58 included for group value and integral with hotel.

Listing NGR: NZ2767742378

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Legacy System number:: 110392
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.