Chapter Clerk'S Office And Chapter Room

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE THE COLLEGE NZ 2742 SW (East end, off)

14/105 Chapter Clerk's office 6/5/52 and Chapter Room

GV II

Stable and loft, later prebendal house; now offices. Late C17 rebuilding of loft known as 'Loft of the children of the almonry'; C18 and C20 alterations. Sandstone rubble with rendered plinth and painted ashlar dressings; brick parapet; set-back left bay partly rendered, partly ashlar. Roof not visible. Adjacent to College Gate, and with first-and second-floor rooms above north lodge of gate. Entrance in College. Main elevation to North Bailey has one narrow 3-storey bay over lodge; south part 3 storeys, 5 bays, and north part (Chapter Room) 2 storeys, 3 bays. 3 renewed ground-floor windows are single-chamfered with 2 lights; raised stone surrounds to sashes with glazing bars on first and second floors, those on second floor with broad bars. Parapet with flat stone coping; north part has sill and parapet band.

Interior: blocked segmental stone arches in ground floor running across the building at east side. First floor has panelled room at south-west with corniced chimney piece; Chapter Room has panelling above plain dado with deep rail, panelled shutters, corniced chimney-piece with oak-leaf and acorn carving; stucco ceiling cornice and central leafy roundel. Other rooms on east side have similar windows and plainer chimneypieces; second-floor rooms partly panelled. Doors of 2 or 6 panels, with panelled reveals in architraves.

Listing NGR: NZ2741342031