{"id":39863,"date":"2017-01-06T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-durham-county-durham\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T23:31:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:31:48","slug":"lets-move-to-durham-county-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-durham-county-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Durham, County Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAs buildings go, Durham Cathedral is as good as it gets What\u2019s going for it? Is it silly to move somewhere just because of one building? I think I could, you know. I\u2019m an archi-geek, so perhaps more predisposed to being intoxicated by a smashing guildhall or a stately home. But still: Durham Cathedral, what a place. As buildings go, this is as good as it gets, equal to the Alhambra, the Pantheon or the Parthenon. Walk in and you\u2019re beamed back to a time of monks and border raids, when Durham was the heart of a rather different northern powerhouse. I could move my bed, desk and a Baby Belling into the north aisle this second, though I doubt the bishop (or my wife, or my kids) would approve. The cathedral does dominate the city. Without it, Durham would be a pleasant, undemanding market town, albeit beautifully sited on a wooded loop of the river Wear and with a fine university attached. With it, though&#8230; Wow! But madness, right? Right?The case against It\u2019s a small city, constrained by its geography, so urbanites might get bored. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/jan\/06\/lets-move-to-durham-county-durham\" target=\"_blank\">Let\u2019s move to Durham, County Durham<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; As buildings go, Durham Cathedral is as good as it gets What\u2019s going for it?&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-amX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":96205,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/interserve-wins-105m-construction-contract-for-durham-university\/","url_meta":{"origin":39863,"position":0},"title":"Interserve wins \u00a3105m construction contract for Durham University","date":"August 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Interserve wins \u00a3105m construction contract for Durham University","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3249,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-teesdale-and-weardale-county-durham\/","url_meta":{"origin":39863,"position":1},"title":"Let&#039;s move to Teesdale and Weardale, County Durham","date":"January 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It's as remote and rugged as you can get in England, with tiny market towns that deserve to be in a Sunday night period dramaWhat's going for it? 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