Old School Community Centre and House Attached
OLD SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTRE AND HOUSE ATTACHED, BROOMSIDE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120724
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Old School Community Centre and House Attached
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTRE AND HOUSE ATTACHED, BROOMSIDE LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-07-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/04566/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120724
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old School Community Centre and House Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTRE AND HOUSE ATTACHED, BROOMSIDE 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:
- OLD SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTRE AND HOUSE ATTACHED, BROOMSIDE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Belmont
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 30471 43584
Details
BELMONT BROOMSIDE LANE NZ 34 SW (South side) 7/12 Old School 16/10/75 Community Centre and house attached GV II (formerly listed as Belmont Controlled Church of England School)
Parish school and house attached, now community centre. 1870 by Austin and Johnson. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and rock-faced quoins; Welsh slate roof with red-moulded ridge tiles. L-plan school with T-plan house, forming 3 ranges round yard facing road. Medieval style. One-storey, 3-bay central block with one-bay projection at left; right projection is left bay of 2-bay house, with second bay set back at right; porch in angle with second bay.
School has 3 wide windows in main block,with projecting lugged surrounds; left wing has front gable over large 2-centred-arched stone mullioned-and- transomed window, with 4 ogee-headed lights in hollow moulded surround. Pent inner extension on inner return of left wing has similar-style 2-light square window in front, door and window on inner return and roof hipped at front. Steeply-pitched roof.
House has chamfered stone mullions to 4-light window under 2-light window, and top slit in front gable peak; shouldered stone surround to door in full- height porch at right. Left inner return to yard has single light.
Steeply-pitched roof has steeply-coped transverse chimneys, one on left wing slope towards central yard,and one behind the house front gable.
School right return gable has large window, with 3 ogee-headed lights, under gabled bellcote.
Listing NGR: NZ3047143584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110001
- 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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