University Library

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN NZ 2742 SW (West side)

14/350 University Library

GV II

Lecture rooms, now library. 1882 by A.W. Blomfield. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; stone flagged roof with stone gable copings. Perpendicular style. 2 storeys of varying heights; 5 bays. Gabled first bay has steps up to double door with wrought iron hinges in hollow-chamfered Tudor-arched surround; carved spandrels and arcaded panel above in square- headed moulded surround. 4-light window, stone mullioned and transomed, above; first floor string; gable parapet string with corner gargoyles. Right end entrance bay has added Renaissance-style porch with Tuscan columns, entablature with low-relief UNIVERSITY LIBRARY in frieze, and obelisk finials; round arch of door has long bracket from key supporting hood. Shallow canted bay above has eaves string and moulded flat-coped parapet. Central block has 2 large mullioned-and-transomed windows on ground floor and three 2-light mullioned windows on first floor, with elliptical heads; first floor string; eaves string with corner gargoyles; roll-moulded parapet. Roof has roll-moulded gable copings; stone crown finials.

Interior: large open-well stair has twisted wrought-iron balustrade; first floor rooms have boarded dados, plaster walls and bracketed queen post and collar roofs.

Listing NGR: NZ2733642272