Blaydon West Infant School

Blaydon West Infant School, Blaydon Bank

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1025209
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1949
List Entry Name:: Blaydon West Infant School
Statutory Address:: Blaydon West Infant School, Blaydon Bank

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1025209
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: Blaydon West Infant School
Statutory Address 1:: Blaydon West Infant School, Blaydon Bank

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Blaydon West Infant School, Blaydon Bank

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 18364 63299

Details

NZ 16 SE 4/10

BLAYDON BLAYDON BANK (west side) Blaydon West Infant School

(Formerly listed as Axwell Park School)

24.3.49

G.V. II School. 1907-1909 by J. Morson. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; diagonal tiles with later felt covering. Arts and Crafts Baroque style.

North front: two storeys, the lower being a blank high basement. Eight bays, symmetrical two high central bays have four linked, coped round gables above four large hall windows flanked by smaller windows; main windows have very tall triple keystones and cut voussoirs rising to copings. Bays two, three, six and seven have three grouped windows each, the central taller and similar to windows of central bays, in raised coped gables breaking the eaves; bays one and eight contain three small cloakroom windows. Ornamental rain water heads between windows of centre section and between bays one and two, and seven and eight. Long tapered buttress bay divisions die to the wall plane at floor level. Single storey south front has eaves interrupted by six gables, the two centre ones higher, with similar treatment; and small projecting canted-bay end windows. Pupils' entrances set back at sides. Chamfered coping to wall enclosing area to north.

Listing NGR: NZ1834463259

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Legacy System number:: 303776
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.