Description

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NZ 2742 SW
14/361

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
PALACE GREEN (East side)
Cosin's Almshouses

(Formerly listed as Almshouses Restaurant, previously listed as Old Museum)

6/5/52

GV II

Former almshouses. 1668 by Longstaffe for Bishop Cosin. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. Two storeys, five bays. Central renewed door in stop-chamfered Tudor-arched surround under high label mould. Double-chamfered surrounds, most renewed, and stone mullions to three-light ground floor and two-light first floor windows. Renewed inscription over door with painted arms.

Interior: first floor removed in C19.

Listing NGR: NZ2741442234

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414563

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