Description

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN
NZ 2742 SW (West side)

14/349 Music Library
6/5/52 (formerly listed as
Union Society)

GV II

Diocesan Registry, now university music library. 1820. Coursed squared
sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof, brick chimneys. One
storey, 7 bays and one-bay pent passage entrance bay at right. Central
bay flanked by full-height buttresses, has internal step up to double ledged
boarded door in wide Tudor-arched moulded surround under dripmould. Coat of
arms under stepped drip string at eaves. Buttresses, diagonal at corners,
define bays containing stone mullioned-and-transomed cross windows with
Tudor-arched lights and label moulds. Plinth chamfered at sill level. Eaves
string; battlemented parapet, higher over entrance. Hipped roof has rear
chimneys. Right passage entrance has flat Tudor-arched door in older wall.

Listing NGR: NZ2733842244

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608645

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)