School House
SCHOOL HOUSE, BIRTLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025204
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, BIRTLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025204
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, BIRTLEY LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE, BIRTLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27399 55649
Details
NZ 25 NE BIRTLEY BIRTLEY LANE (east side) 12/2 School House
G.V. II
House. Circa 1860. Tooled snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, quoins and plinth; roof Welsh slate with bands of fishscale pattern. One storey and dormers; 5 bays. Central half-glazed door, in stop-chamfered alternate-block jambs and high lintel, in porch with bargeboards and finial. Similar surrounds and bracketed stone sills to sash windows with glazing bars; bargeboards and shafts to dormers in bays 2 and 4. Left and right returns have window in bargeboarded gable peak. 3 transverse ridge chimneys of yellow brick with stone cornices and C19 yellow chimney pots. Historical note: built as schoolmaster's house for National School.
Listing NGR: NZ2739955649
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303766
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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