Salvation Army Citadel

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

14/397 Nos. 47 and 48 (Salvation Army Citadel) 19.10.62 (formerly listed as Nos. 48 and 49)

GV II*

Assembly rooms and shops, incorporating part of North Gate of Castle; now Salvation Army meeting hall and university department. Medieval gate. Circa 1800 assembly rooms with ground floor alterations. Ground floor rendered; first floor English bond brick with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Circa 1900 shop at left has recessed central door; upper glazing bars in shop windows. Central c.1800 shop has partly-glazed door and 2-pane overlight at left, and shop window with 3 rows of 6 panes at right, under patterned shallow segmental lunette. Assembly rooms entrance at right has many-panelled door in Greek Doric doorcase with columns and entablature, flanking narrow sashes with projecting stone sills. First floor has 3 large sash windows above shops, with wedge stone lintels, projecting stone sills, and glazing bars; wide blank right bay has painted SALVATION ARMY in aedicule. Low-pitched roof has end brick chimney.

Interior: wide open-string stair has swept wreath and curtail, round handrail on stick balusters. Reported to contain fragments of North Gate barbican in basement. Graded for medieval parts.

Listing NGR: NZ2747642386