Description

NZ 2742 NE
10/215
6/5/52

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
LEAZES PLACE
(East side)

Nos. 1 to 6
(consecutive)

GV
II

Terrace of houses. Circa 1840. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar
basement, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof. Cast and wrought iron
gas lamp, area railings and foot scraper. Basements and 2 storeys; 3 bays
to No. 1 with left return to Claypath, 2 bays to remaining houses; 13 bays
in all. 6-panelled doors and overlights, those of Nos. 3 and 4 with glazing
bars. Tuscan doorcases to Nos. 3 and 4, fluted pilasters with Greek key
frieze and cornice to remaining houses. Wedge stone lintels and projecting
stone sills to sashes with glazing bars; large first-floor oriel to No. 4.
Roof, hipped at left end, has ridge brick chimneys. Wrought-iron foot scraper
shaped '2' set in step of No: 3. Incised ashlar block with street name at
left end. Gas lamp attached between Nos. 4 and 5: mid C19, cast and wrought
iron; square, with high acorn-shaped finial, and resting on iron bracket.
Area railings to Nos. 5 and 6 are spear-headed with rear stays and set in
chamfered dwarf walls.

Listing NGR: NZ2772042686

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26413851

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)