Latitude: 54.7744 / 54°46'27"N
Longitude: -1.5765 / 1°34'35"W
OS Eastings: 427338
OS Northings: 542244
OS Grid: NZ273422
Mapcode National: GBR KFF7.H9
Mapcode Global: WHC4Q.R8G7
Plus Code: 9C6WQCFF+Q9
Entry Name: Music Library
Listing Date: 6 May 1952
Last Amended: 10 March 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1322866
English Heritage Legacy ID: 110405
ID on this website: 101322866
Location: Durham, County Durham, DH1
County: County Durham
Electoral Ward/Division: Elvet and Gilesgate
Parish: City of Durham
Built-Up Area: Durham
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Tagged with: Library building
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN
NZ 2742 SW (West side)
14/349 Music Library
6/5/52 (formerly listed as
Union Society)
GV II
Diocesan Registry, now university music library. 1820. Coursed squared
sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof, brick chimneys. One
storey, 7 bays and one-bay pent passage entrance bay at right. Central
bay flanked by full-height buttresses, has internal step up to double ledged
boarded door in wide Tudor-arched moulded surround under dripmould. Coat of
arms under stepped drip string at eaves. Buttresses, diagonal at corners,
define bays containing stone mullioned-and-transomed cross windows with
Tudor-arched lights and label moulds. Plinth chamfered at sill level. Eaves
string; battlemented parapet, higher over entrance. Hipped roof has rear
chimneys. Right passage entrance has flat Tudor-arched door in older wall.
Listing NGR: NZ2733842244
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