Abbey House (Department of Theology) County Durham, England
Listed Building Data
Abbey House (Department of Theology) 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1121387
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 6 May 1952
- Name
- ABBEY HOUSE (DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY)
- Location
- ABBEY HOUSE (DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY), PALACE GREEN
- District
- County Durham
- Grid Reference
- NZ 27421 42190
- Easting
- 427421.0610
- Northing
- 542190.1420
Listed Building Description
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DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN NZ 2742 SW (East side)
14/364 Abbey House 6/5/52 (Department of Theology)
GV II
House, now university department. Includes former Abbey Cottage, Dun Cow Lane. Late C17 early/18 century, incorporating earlier fragments. Sandstone ashlar front, rendered right return to Dun Cow Lane and brick rear and left gables; Welsh slate roof with brick chimney and stone right gable coping. Basement, 3 storeys and attics; 5 bays. Central 6-panel door in stone architrave; 3-pane overlight under cornice resting on paired carved brackets. Flat stone lintels and flat stone sills to renewed sashes with glazing bars in wide boxes. Parapet has cyma-moulded coping. Left return has shaped gable with brick coping and end chimney; right return has earlier stone wall revealed with round-headed blocked door; irregular-block right jamb. Shaped rear gable has pilastered chimney.
Interior: panelled entrance hall dado with ramped rail; similar dado on stair, with 2 column balusters per tread and fluted rectangular newels, the topmost with leaf-carved panel, supporting ramped grip handrail. Block tread ends. Main ground-floor room panelled. Rear brick addition not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2742542191
