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© Mr A Hubbard
IoE Number:
110308
Location:
ST. CHAD'S COLLEGE LIGHTFOOT HOUSE, 19 (NORTH) NORTH BAILEY (east side)
DURHAM, DURHAM, DURHAM
Photographer:
Mr A Hubbard
Date Photographed:
20 July 2000
Date listed:
06 May 1952
Date of last amendment:
06 May 1952
Grade
II
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DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NORTH BAILEY
NZ 2742 SW (East side)
14/257 No. 19 (north part)
6/5/52 (St. Chad's College)
(Lightfoot House)
GV II
House, now college. Early C18, raised C19. Painted incised stucco with
painted ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof with red brick chimneys.
3 storeys and attics, 3 windows. 2 internal steps up to 6-panel door at left
in architrave under deep hood. Projecting stone sills to 2 sashes with glazing
bars on ground floor, 3 late C19 sashes on each upper floor and 2 bargeboarded
gabled dormers with finials. Boot-scraper recess beside door. 2 cellar chutes
with iron grilles.
Interior: open-string stair on lower flights, closed above, has ramped grip
handrail on vase-and-column balusters and pulvinated string; carved tread ends
in lower dog-leg flights; open well above. Newels have moulded pendants;
ramped dado rail.