Description

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE

NZ 2742 SE
15/339
30.4.71 (No 59 only)

OLD ELVET
(North side)
Nos. 56, 57, 58 and 59
(The Royal County Hotel)

GV
II

3 houses, now part of hotel. Nos. 56-58 early C19, No. 59 late C18, all with
alterations. Incised stucco with plinth, Welsh slate roofs, brick chimneys.
3 storeys, 9 windows in all. Ground floors of Nos. 56-58 removed or altered
for hotel purposes and to provide car park entrance. Scattered fenestration
above, some later C19 sashes and an oriel, 2 wide early C20 first-floor oriels.
Rebuilt stacks at junction of Nos. 56 and 57, and shared stack between Nos.
58 and 59. No. 59 is much less altered. Central C19 6-panel door in architrave
with pulvinated frieze and pedimented hood on brackets. 2 early-C19 sashes in
architraves at either side. On first floor 2 mid-C19 hip-roofed oriels and on
second floor two tripartite windows. All windows sashes, intermediate glazing
bars removed. Stone alternating quoins; moulded and modillioned stone eaves
cornice. Nos. 56-58 included for group value and integral with hotel.

Listing NGR: NZ2767742378

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26684759

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas