73-75, SADDLER STREET

Nos. 73-75 on Saddler Street are two houses and a mill, now functioning as a shop and restaurant. The houses date from the 17th century, while the mill is from the 18th century, with a 20th-century link and shop added. The exterior features painted brick with a rendered band above the shop and a Welsh slate roof. The rear buildings consist of a stone ground floor with a timber-framed rendered first floor, and the mill is made of sandstone rubble with a Welsh slate roof.

The structure has four storeys and four bays. The altered ground floor includes a passage entrance on the left. The first and second floors feature sash windows with glazing bars in wide boxes, topped with header-course lintels and projecting stone sills. There is a smaller sash window of the same design at the centre of the third floor. A dentilled string course runs along the second floor, supported by stone gutter brackets. A large teapot shop sign is mounted on a central bracket.

The rear house has an elevation facing the passage and consists of two storeys and an attic. It features a Tudor-arched lintel over the passage, with a blocked ground floor window that has three-over-three stone mullioned and transomed lights. The rendered first floor projects and includes a wood-mullioned and transomed six-light window, which has been partly altered to insert a louvred window. A half-dormer contains an eight-light wood-mullioned and transomed window under a gable, with studs, brick nogging, and slate-hung cheeks.

The mill, located at the end of the yard adjacent to the rear house, has renewed windows. Inside the rear house, there is a one-flight stair with a flat handrail on a balustrade that has been boarded over, featuring a fat diabolo-shaped newel.

Historically, this mill was one of the first in Durham to grind mustard, a specialty of the 18th century in the area.