Music Library

The Music Library, originally the Diocesan Registry, is a Grade II listed building located on Palace Green in Durham. Built in 1820, it features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof, complemented by brick chimneys. The structure is one storey high, consisting of seven bays with an additional one-bay pent passage entrance bay on the right.

The central bay is flanked by full-height buttresses and includes an internal step leading up to a double ledged boarded door, which is set in a wide Tudor-arched moulded surround beneath a dripmould. A coat of arms is displayed under a stepped drip string at the eaves. The diagonal buttresses at the corners define the bays that contain stone mullioned-and-transomed cross windows, which feature Tudor-arched lights and label moulds. The plinth is chamfered at the sill level, and there is an eaves string along the top. The building has a battlemented parapet, which is higher over the entrance, and a hipped roof with chimneys at the rear. The right passage entrance has a flat Tudor-arched door set in an older wall.