The Royal County Hotel

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE

NZ 2742 SE 15/339 30.4.71 (No 59 only)

OLD ELVET (North side) Nos. 56, 57, 58 and 59 (The Royal County Hotel)

GV II

3 houses, now part of hotel. Nos. 56-58 early C19, No. 59 late C18, all with alterations. Incised stucco with plinth, Welsh slate roofs, brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 9 windows in all. Ground floors of Nos. 56-58 removed or altered for hotel purposes and to provide car park entrance. Scattered fenestration above, some later C19 sashes and an oriel, 2 wide early C20 first-floor oriels. Rebuilt stacks at junction of Nos. 56 and 57, and shared stack between Nos. 58 and 59. No. 59 is much less altered. Central C19 6-panel door in architrave with pulvinated frieze and pedimented hood on brackets. 2 early-C19 sashes in architraves at either side. On first floor 2 mid-C19 hip-roofed oriels and on second floor two tripartite windows. All windows sashes, intermediate glazing bars removed. Stone alternating quoins; moulded and modillioned stone eaves cornice. Nos. 56-58 included for group value and integral with hotel.

Listing NGR: NZ2767742378