Great Gateway To Kepier Hospital (That Part Within The City Of Durham)

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PROVIDENCE ROW NZ 24 SE (North end, off)

4/374 Great Gateway to 19/2/70 Kepier Hospital (that part within the City of Durham)

GV I

Hospital gatehouse. C14. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; pantiled roof, with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. T-plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central 2-centred arch on shafts has drip string with blind quatrefoil frieze above; 2-centred-arched window above with casements under dripmould; top string to second storey under gable. Buttresses with plinths and offsets flank arch. Left bay has renewed boarded door under stone lintel with blocked small window immediately above; chamfered lintel to small first floor window. Right bay has small elliptical-headed opening on ground floor and small square casement above. Cyma-moulded plinth of buttresses continues along part of right bay. Gateway has 2 quadripartite vaults on corbels, and central arch; bosses eroded and missing; small openings to side walls. Rear elevation has polygonal stair turret to north of arch; stone stair to first- floor Tudor-arched doorway; carved kneeler on north gable.

Interior shows segmental-headed fireplace in north room; double-chamfered arch on responds in south room; some 2-centred-arched doorways in upper rooms; part of spiral stair in turret. Stonework heavily eroded.

A scheduled ancient monument.

Listing NGR: NZ2821043260