Description

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE QUARRYHEADS LANE
NZ 24 SE (West side)

4/378 Durham School Luce
Music Centre and
porter's lodge
adjoining

GV II

Lodge; gymnasium, music room, workshop and laboratory all now music building.
1889-1904 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Hammer-dressed sandstone with ashlar
dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Free Jacobean style.
2 storeys, 5 bays and one storey and attics, 6 bays: 11 bays in all. 5 left
bays: canted 2-storey porch in fifth bay has Tudor-arched door with Gothic
tracery, dated 1904, and carved spandrels; raised panel over has coat of arms
in stepped moulded surround; small windows either side. Stone-mullioned-and-
transomed windows above under parapet with Tudor flower string and roll-moulded
coping. Ground floor windows of one, 2 and 3 lights; high windows above,
similar to porch upper windows, break eaves under gabled dormers which have
moulded, flat-ended copings. Heraldic glass in porch window. 5 bays to right:
central 3-bay pent extension with central door under attic gable. Flat Tudor-
arched surround to door, with carved panel above dated 1899, flanked by ogee-
coped pilasters under continuous cornice; cross windows either side. 2-light
windows above; clock and inscription FLOREAT DUNELMIA above door. 4-light
gabled dormers flanking clock gable. Left end bay has ground-floor plain door
and window. One-bay right wing has 3-light mullioned-and-transomed window
under gable. Steeply-pitched roof has massive corniced left end chimney;
battlemented centre rear chimney; plain right chimney. Ball finials on gables.

Listing NGR: NZ2690141969

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608647

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Recommended Books

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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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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)