Department Of Archaeology

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NZ 2742 SW 14/396

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE SADDLER STREET (East side) Nos. 45 and 46

(Formerly listed as Nos. 45 and 46 (Department of Archaeology), previously listed as University lecture rooms, Nos. 46 and 47)

30.4.71

GV II* House. Incorporates part of North Gate of castle; university department, at time of listing, medieval gate; C17 house with early C19 alterations. Gate: coursed squared sandstone. Incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, two wide bays and two storey narrow third bay. Renewed double door in deep reveal at left of second bay; early C19 nine-panel double door in right end bay, with patterned overlight, in deep panelled reveal of narrow doorcase with corner paterae. Sash windows with glazing bars, three on ground floor renewed; projecting stone sill to window in right bay; second floor sill band; wide first-floor band, possibly altered shop fascia. Steeply-pitched roof.

Interior: fragments of barbican of North Gate can be seen in several basement cupboards and rooms: three and four chamfered courses of plinth, and several courses of masonry. C17 closed-string open-well stair through four floors has wide moulded handrail on graduated barley-sugar twist balusters and square panelled newels; handrail moulding continuous with newel caps. Secondary stair of early C19 type in right end bay. Graded for North Gate and for staircase.

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

Listing NGR: NZ2747042384