52 And 53, South Street

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE SOUTH STREET NZ 2742 SE (West side)

14/456 Nos. 52 and 53 6/5/52 GV II

2 cottages. Early C19. English bond brick with painted ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof; plinth at right on slope. 2 storeys, 2 bays each house. Elaborately-panelled door at right of No. 52, and 6-panelled door at left of No. 53, in 2 centre bays, have overlights with glazing bars under thick moulded stone hoods. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars. Low-pitched roof of No. 52 at left has bargeboarded dormer with renewed glazing and slate-hung cheeks. No. 53 has steeper roof and 2 square-headed dormers with slate-hung cheeks. Central ridge chimney to No. 52 has square yellow pots; right ridge chimney with round yellow pots to No. 53.

Listing NGR: NZ2709842253