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Language Laboratory and Adjacent Gate Piers

A Grade II Listed Building in Neville's Cross, County Durham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.7651 / 54°45'54"N

Longitude: -1.5809 / 1°34'51"W

OS Eastings: 427063

OS Northings: 541208

OS Grid: NZ270412

Mapcode National: GBR KFDB.JM

Mapcode Global: WHC4Q.PHDC

Plus Code: 9C6WQC89+2J

Entry Name: Language Laboratory and Adjacent Gate Piers

Listing Date: 10 March 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1120636

English Heritage Legacy ID: 110200

ID on this website: 101120636

Location: Merryoaks, County Durham, DH1

County: County Durham

Electoral Ward/Division: Neville's Cross

Parish: City of Durham

Built-Up Area: Durham

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham

Church of England Parish: Durham St Oswald

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE ELVET HILL ROAD NZ24SE (West side)

4/148 Language laboratory and adjacent gate piers.

GV II

Coach house, saddle room, byre, hay-loft and hen house of Elvet Hill House. now language laboratory.

1868 for Fogg-Elliott family.

Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. L-plan. One storey, 4 bays and lower one-storey 2-bay extension. Chamfered surrounds to 4 top-hung casements with glazing bars. Steeply-pitched roof has fishscale pattern; sloped gable coping on moulded kneelers. Right return gable contains pigeon holes and shelves in 2-centred arch under drip mould. Rear has cantilevered external stone stair to loft. Small right extension has 2 top-hung casements in chamfered surrounds flanking blind cross-slit. Gate piers: 2 tall square sandstone piers with plinth and coved coping adjacent to 2-bay section, and one similar pier at right end of building.

Listing NGR: NZ2706341208

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