Description

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE OLD ELVET
NZ 2742 SE (South side)

15/305 Nos. 18 and 19
19.10.62
GV II

2 houses, one build. Late C18 with considerable C19 alterations. Stone plinth. Mottled,
light red brick in English garden wall bond (5 and one). Welsh slate roof
with brick copings and chimneys. 3 storeys, one and 2 bays. 6-panel doors
with overlights (No. 19 blocked, and top door panels glazed), in architraves
under later pedimented hoods, at left of No. 18 and off centre of No. 19.
Tripartite sash windows with glazing bars, those at top and bottom left renewed
early C19, the latter lost bars. Later C19 oriel at first floor left.
3-brick floor bands. Ridge and rear chimneys. Tumbled-in brickwork to gable
ends.

Interior: No. 18 reported to have open-string stair with moulded handrail
and 2 turned balusters per tread; square newels with knob finials; continuous
curved tread end. No. 19 has open-string stair with moulded ramped handrail
on diagonal lattice balustrade.

Source: F.J. Johnson. Historic Staircases of Durham City Durham 1970.

Listing NGR: NZ2782642301

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26454138

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings