Description

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE HALLGARTH STREET
NZ 2741 NE (East side)

17/198 Durham Prison
19/2/70 Officer's Club
(The Tithe Barn)

GV II*

Barn, now part of club. Part of Durham Priory farm. Medieval. Sandstone
rubble ground floor with ashlar dressings, some renewed; partly renewed timber
frame above, with brick nogging. Roof of pantiles with 2 rows of stone slates
at eaves. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Gable towards street has elliptical-arched
vehicle entrance; close-studded upper part on bressumar. Right return on
rising ground has steps up to door in second bay of close-studded upper floor.
Window at left has inserted ventilator. Hipped roof with bargeboarded gablets.

Interior: painted plaster; roof has 2 top-chamfered slightly-arched tie beams
with arch braces on jowled posts; scout principals tenoned into ties; carpenter's
marks. Upper part of roof ceiled over.

Listing NGR: NZ2783841974

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535865

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets