An imposing facade due to the all-over use of rustication, a feature normally reserved for the ground floor alone. It was built c1730 for <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sir_Robert_Eden,_1st_Baronet,_of_Maryland" title="Category:Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland">Sir Robert Eden</a> (last governor of Maryland before US independence). Grade II* listed.
It is now occupied by St John's College, a college of the University of Durham.
Stephen Richards
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