Description

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE THE COLLEGE NZ 2741 NW (South side)

16/83 No. 6 (formerly listed 6/5/52 as house adjoining the Song School)

GV II*

Granary, later prebendal house. Medieval with C17 and C18 alterations. Roughly- squared coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof not visible; brick chimney. Basement and 2 storeys; 7 bays. 5 bays flanked by buttresses with offsets; 2 right bays contain wide segmental basement arch. Main block has doorway with shouldered lintel, and blocked arch of thin stones, in basement. 2 flights of wide steps up to third-bay 6-panel door in wide architrave with prominent cornice. Sashes with glazing bars have flat stone lintels and flat stone sills. Roll- moulded parapet. Moulded round rainwater heads and lugged drainpipe fixings. Wrought-iron bracket to right of door holds round gas lamp with gablets over vents and conical top. Wrought-iron handrails with some water-leaf decoration.

Interior: basement has chamfered corbel course supporting barrel vault. Inserted walls may hide original columns. Ground floor has panelled room with Tuscan pilasters; bar-stopped chamfers on moulded beams; flat-Tudor-arched chimney piece. Dog-leg stair at right, with single lower flight, has open string, ramped moulded wreathed handrail on slender turned balusters and column newel at curtail; plain dado. Panelled room also on first floor.

Listing NGR: NZ2734341980

External Links

• Wikidata Q17535923

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)