The Royal County Hotel

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE

NZ 2742 SE 15/340 6/5/52

OLD ELVET (North side) The Royal County Hotel

GV II

Hotel, late C17 with alterations. Incised stucco with stone plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roofs, brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 7 bays, 2:3:2, defined by giant fluted Ionic pilasters with top entablature and blocking course; centre section slightly higher. Central 6-panel door with patterned overlight and flanking pilasters. 4 tripartite windows in architraves on ground floor and inserted paired windows in second bay. Similar insertion above. Other windows early C19 sashes with glazing bars in architraves, longer on first floor where 3 centre windows are casements opening on balconies, balustraded stone in centre, ornamental cast iron at sides, all on long brackets. Very high pitched central roof; chimney over left section. ROYAL COUNTY HOTEL in large relief letters at second floor level.

Large C20 rear extensions not of interest.

Interior: late C17 open well closed-string stair with pierced carved balustrade reported to be re-sited from Lochleven Castle.

Source: F.F. Johnson. Historic Staircases in Durham City Durham 1970.

Listing NGR: NZ2764542390