Bishop Cosin'S Almhouses is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Almshouse. 4 related planning applications.

Bishop Cosin'S Almhouses

WRENN ID: ruined-threshold-poplar
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: County Durham
Country: England
Date first listed: 10 March 1988
Type: Almshouse
Source: Historic England listing

Description

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE

NZ 2742 SW 14/468

OWENGATE (South side) No. 7 (Bishop Cosin's Almshouses)

GV II

Almshouse. Founded 1666, on Palace Green; present building 1837 for the University. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Tudor style. 2-storey outer bays and one-storey, one-bay link. Boarded door with elaborate wrought iron hinges in Tudor-arched surround at right of central bay, 2-light window at left; gabled end bays have 3-light ground-floor and 2-light first-floor windows; floor string; commemorative panels in gable peak, that at right eroded. All windows double-chamfered under label moulds and stone-mullioned-and-transomed. Roll-moulded gable copings on deep block kneelers.

Included for landscape value.

Listing NGR: NZ2743342311

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