Pemberton Buildings County Durham, England
Listed Building Data
Pemberton Buildings has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1121386
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 10 March 1988
- Name
- PEMBERTON BUILDINGS
- Location
- PEMBERTON BUILDINGS, PALACE GREEN
- District
- County Durham
- Grid Reference
- NZ 27416 42210
- Easting
- 427415.8450
- Northing
- 542209.8350
Listed Building Description
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DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN NZ 2742 SW (East side)
14/363 Pemberton Buildings
GV II
University union and lecture rooms. Dated 1929 on rainwater heads; by W.D. Caroe. Snecked stone with ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof. Double-span. Tudor and C17 styles. 3-storey, one-bay tower at left; 2 storeys, 6 bays at right. Entrance tower has 4-leaf door in Tudor arch; square surround has carved spandrels, raised central panel with University arms flanked by carved bands. 4 lights in panel above with cornice and carved cresting; obelisk finials on flanking pilasters. Shallow 3-light canted window in set-back top storey under battlemented parapet.
6-bay section has ashlar ground floor; bays 2 and 5 project under gabled dormers and have 2-light mullioned and transomed ground-floor and tall first- floor windows with 2 transoms. Similar style windows fill other bays, those on first floor without transoms and set back between Tuscan half- and quarter- columns, supporting cyma-moulded cornice. All windows leaded casements. Right return has 2 shaped gables and dated rainwater heads.
Included for group value.
Listing NGR: NZ2741742210
