Prebends Cottage Black and White - Durham City - Prebends Bridge
The Prebends Bridge was built in the 1770s after the previous bridge had been washed away by the great flood of 1771. Dean Thomas Dampier was in charge of the project, and the bridge was designed by Dean and Chapter architect George Nicholson.
The new bridge was deliberately placed to open up one of the most famous cityscapes in the world – cathedral high above the trees on the right, Framwellgate bridge in the distance, mills dotted along the water’s edge… After JMW Turner published his painting from the bridge in 1837, it became the picture postcard view of Durham.
But bridges are expensive to build and maintain, and in centuries gone by, people were content to pay to safely cross them. Indeed, giving money for maintaining your local bridge was seen as a good, charitable thing to do in the way we today would donate to a local hospice.
So while Prebends Bridge was being built, a gatehouse which probably doubled as a tollkeeper’s cottage was built beside it.
This incredibly cute, Grade II-listed cottage, with its oriel window keeping an eye on anyone using the bridge, is called Prebends Cottage.
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