Durham School Luce Music Centre And Porter'S Lodge Adjoining

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE QUARRYHEADS LANE NZ 24 SE (West side)

4/378 Durham School Luce Music Centre and porter's lodge adjoining

GV II

Lodge; gymnasium, music room, workshop and laboratory all now music building. 1889-1904 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Hammer-dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Free Jacobean style. 2 storeys, 5 bays and one storey and attics, 6 bays: 11 bays in all. 5 left bays: canted 2-storey porch in fifth bay has Tudor-arched door with Gothic tracery, dated 1904, and carved spandrels; raised panel over has coat of arms in stepped moulded surround; small windows either side. Stone-mullioned-and- transomed windows above under parapet with Tudor flower string and roll-moulded coping. Ground floor windows of one, 2 and 3 lights; high windows above, similar to porch upper windows, break eaves under gabled dormers which have moulded, flat-ended copings. Heraldic glass in porch window. 5 bays to right: central 3-bay pent extension with central door under attic gable. Flat Tudor- arched surround to door, with carved panel above dated 1899, flanked by ogee- coped pilasters under continuous cornice; cross windows either side. 2-light windows above; clock and inscription FLOREAT DUNELMIA above door. 4-light gabled dormers flanking clock gable. Left end bay has ground-floor plain door and window. One-bay right wing has 3-light mullioned-and-transomed window under gable. Steeply-pitched roof has massive corniced left end chimney; battlemented centre rear chimney; plain right chimney. Ball finials on gables.

Listing NGR: NZ2690141969