Description

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE

NZ 2742 SE
15/340
6/5/52

OLD ELVET
(North side)
The Royal County Hotel

GV
II

Hotel, late C17 with alterations. Incised stucco with stone plinth and
dressings; Welsh slate roofs, brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 7 bays, 2:3:2,
defined by giant fluted Ionic pilasters with top entablature and blocking
course; centre section slightly higher. Central 6-panel door with patterned
overlight and flanking pilasters. 4 tripartite windows in architraves on
ground floor and inserted paired windows in second bay. Similar insertion
above. Other windows early C19 sashes with glazing bars in architraves,
longer on first floor where 3 centre windows are casements opening on
balconies, balustraded stone in centre, ornamental cast iron at sides, all
on long brackets. Very high pitched central roof; chimney over left section.
ROYAL COUNTY HOTEL in large relief letters at second floor level.

Large C20 rear extensions not of interest.

Interior: late C17 open well closed-string stair with pierced carved
balustrade reported to be re-sited from Lochleven Castle.

Source: F.F. Johnson. Historic Staircases in Durham City Durham 1970.

Listing NGR: NZ2764542390

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414557

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)