Hatfield College Dining-Room Block

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NORTH BAILEY NZ 2742 SE (East side)

15/250 Hatfield College 19.2.70 dining-room block

GV II

House, later inn, now college. C18. Brick with painted ashlar dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays and 3 in projecting left wing. 3 steps up to 6-panelled double door in arch under bracketed pediment in left bay. Large sash window at right, with thin flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill; 2 smaller sashes above. Left wing has 3 large ground floor windows and 4 smaller above. All are renewed sashes with glazing bars. High 5-brick-wide first floor level band; high 2-brick-wide first floor sill band. Renewed ridge brick chimneys.

Interior has open-string stair with ramped and wreathed handrail on 2 vase and column balusters per tread; newels are fluted Doric columns. Dining room has enriched Venetian window case; plaster ceiling cornice and leafy roundels. Senior common room has shallow bow containing large windows under stucco decorated fluted segmental ceiling; panelled surround; corniced chimney-piece of marble in two colours with paterae and fluting.

Listing NGR: NZ2751242242