Dunelm House in Durham has been listed after a long battle led by the Twentieth Century Society.

The brutalist building whose five concrete storeys cascade down the steeply wooded banks of the River Wear next to Ove Arup’s grade I-listed Kingsgate Bridge, has been given grade II protection.

The minister’s decision represents a significant reversal of fortune for the 1966 building designed by Richard Raines of the Architects’ Co-Partnership, under the supervision of Michael Powers. In 2016 the university applied for a certificate of immunity from listing (COI) and announced plans to demolish it as part of a redevelopment.

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