Table B2: List of Heritage at Risk in the Durham City Conservation Area
Information from Durham County Council (2016b) character area appraisal and from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.
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Character Assessment Area |
Character Assessment Sub-area |
Heritage at Risk |
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Area 1 Peninsula |
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Castle Walls*‡ |
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Sadler Street |
34, 35 and 35a Saddler Street* |
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Riverbanks |
Count’s House* |
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Prebends Bridge*‡ |
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Area 2 Framwellgate |
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North Road |
The Former Miners Hall, 15-17 North Road* |
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The former Cinema, North Road |
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The United Bus Company Canteen, North Road* |
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Railway walls leading to station approach |
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Milburngate / Sidegate / Crookhall |
Milburngate House (demolished 2017) |
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The Sands, Riverside |
The Mortuary Chapel, St. Nicholas Cemetery |
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St. Nicholas Cemetery stone walls and graveyard |
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Claypath Area |
Claypath No: 18 (former Gas Board offices and latterly Oldfields restaurant), 25, 26 (former Palladium Cinema), 29 (all demolished 2017) |
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Quaker Burial Ground, Belleue Court, Claypath |
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Area 3 Crossgate |
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Western Hill |
Industrial buildings near bottom of Back Western Hill |
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Viaduct |
County Hospital and its walls (North Road, Waddington Street, Sutton Street) (now developed as student accommodation so no longer at risk) |
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Flass Well, Flass Street |
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The Bridge Hotel, North Road |
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St Bede’s Cemetery walls and some gravestones |
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Crossgate / South St |
Walls/railings/Gravestones Crossgate churchyard/Grape Lane |
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Pimlico / Durham School |
Walls to the rear of the Observatory |
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Area 4 Elvet |
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New Elvet and Old Elvet |
Dunelm House, New Elvet (plans for demolition)
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Riverside |
Former Public Swimming Baths, Elvet Riverside to be demolished to create a new University Business School |
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The brick railway bridge abutments associated with Elvet Railway |
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Mount Joy farmhouse and associated farm buildings |
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Green Lane / Whinney Hill |
Former Durham Johnston School, Whinney Hill (planning permission given for demolition and replacement by housing) |
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Church Street / Hallgarth Street |
Church Street No: 31, 32, 33* |
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The Tithe Barn Durham Prison Officers Club, Hallgarth Street*‡ |
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Area 5 Gilesgate |
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Upper Gilesgate |
Vane Tempest Hall and Stable Blocks* |
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York House, St Hild’s Lane |
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Lower Gilesgate |
Kepier House |
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Kepier / Riverside / St Mary Magdalene’s |
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene* |
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19th century brick kiln to north of Kepier Hospital |
B.2 The Durham City Neighbourhood Forum, based on public feedback, has identified non-designated heritage assets in Our Neighbourhood outside the Durham City Conservation Area:
- Passport Office and National Savings building (demolished)
- Riverbanks Gardens and Heritage Walks
- Sheraton House, Merryoaks
- Neville House, Merryoaks (demolished)
B.3 And additional heritage at risk
- Dryburn House (Grade II listed), University Hospital of North Durham grounds (planning permission given for demolition and replacement by an extended A&E department)
- William Robson House, North Road (formerly Bailes Printing works) (plans for development)
See also Table B1
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