The Royal County Hotel
THE ROYAL COUNTY HOTEL, 56, 57, 58 AND 59, OLD ELVET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110392
- 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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