Latitude: 54.7756 / 54°46'32"N
Longitude: -1.5713 / 1°34'16"W
OS Eastings: 427677
OS Northings: 542378
OS Grid: NZ276423
Mapcode National: GBR KFG6.MW
Mapcode Global: WHC4Q.T7ZB
Plus Code: 9C6WQCGH+6F
Entry Name: The Royal County Hotel
Listing Date: 30 April 1971
Last Amended: 10 March 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1322902
English Heritage Legacy ID: 110392
ID on this website: 101322902
Location: The Sands, 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
Church of England Parish: Durham St Oswald
Church of England Diocese: Durham
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
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