6A, The College is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
6A, The College
- WRENN ID
- gentle-bronze-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE THE COLLEGE NZ 2741 NW (West side)
16/82 No. 6a (formerly listed 6/5/52 as house adjoining the Song School)
GV II
House. Medieval fabric with C18 alterations. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof; new brick chimney. 3 storeys, 3 windows. 6-panel door with 4-pane overlight recessed at right of first bay; plain boarded door and 2-pane overlight at left. Sash window with glazing bars to right of door; ground floor lintel band. Sashes with glazing bars, most renewed, on upper floors have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Low parapet has flat stone coping. Clasping buttress with one offset, at left.
Interior: re-used staircase from Abbey Cottage, Dun Cow Lane: c.1670. Treads and risers new, as are newel caps and some other parts. High grip handrail; fat twisted balusters. Newels, pulvinated string and handrail friezes have rinceau decoration with some figures and ribbon bands. Source: F.F. Johnson, Historic Durham Staircases Durham 1970.
Listing NGR: NZ2734341980
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