73-75, SADDLER STREET

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE SADDLER STREET NZ 2742 SW (West side)

14/403 Nos. 73-75 (consecutive) No. 75: 30/4/71 GV II

2 houses and mill, now shop and restaurant. C17 houses with C20 link; mill C18. C20 shop. Painted brick with rendered band above shop; Welsh slate roof. Rear buildings: stone ground floor with timber-framed rendered first floor; sandstone rubble mill with Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 4 bays. Altered ground floor has passage entrance at left. First and second floors have sashes with glazing bars in wide boxes, with header-course lintels and projecting stone sills. One smaller sash of same type at centre of third floor. Dentilled second-floor string. Stone gutter brackets. Large teapot shop sign on central bracket.

Rear house: elevation to passage 2 storeys and attic. Tudor-arched lintel over passage; blocked ground floor window has 3-over-3 stone mullioned-and- transomed lights; rendered first floor projects and has wood mullioned-and- transomed 6-light window partly altered to insert louvred window; half-dormer contains 8-light wood-mullioned-and-transomed window under gable with studs and brick nogging and slate-hung cheeks.

Mill at end of yard adjacent to rear house, has renewed windows.

Interior: rear house has one-flight stair with flat handrail on balustrade boarded over; fat diabolo-shaped newel.

Historical note: this mill was one of the first in Durham to grind mustard, an C18 Durham speciality.

Listing NGR: NZ2741242480