Nurses' Teaching Centre, Wall and Gate Piers

NURSES' TEACHING CENTRE, WALL AND GATE PIERS, SCHOOL AYCLIFFE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1159723
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Nurses' Teaching Centre, Wall and Gate Piers
Statutory Address:
NURSES' TEACHING CENTRE, WALL AND GATE PIERS, SCHOOL AYCLIFFE LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1159723
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Nurses' Teaching Centre, Wall and Gate Piers
Statutory Address 1:
NURSES' TEACHING CENTRE, WALL AND GATE PIERS, SCHOOL AYCLIFFE LANE

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NURSES' TEACHING CENTRE, WALL AND GATE PIERS, SCHOOL AYCLIFFE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Great Aycliffe
National Grid Reference:
NZ 25879 23590

Details

NZ 22 SE GREAT AYCLIFFE SCHOOL AYCLIFFE LANE (North side) 10/19 Nurses' Teaching Centre, wall and gate-piers

II

House with garden wall attached to north-west and gates and gate-piers attached to south-east. Pebble-dashed masonry; rubble sandstone wall and iron gates. Villa dated 1835 on right rainwater head; mid C19 gates and piers. 2 storeys, 5 bays with low plinth. Central 6-panel door, with 3-pane side lights and overlight with patterned radial glazing, in pedimented Tuscan porch. 12-pane sashes with projecting sills; slightly-elongated windows to ground floor and blocked window above porch. Tall parapet, with band and flat coping, conceals low-pitched roof. Set-back addition to right has elliptical carriage arch, parallel bands above and conceals lean-to additions to right return. Large 24-pane stair window to rear. Interior has several 6-panel doors in architraves with angle paterae. High wall, to north-west, runs west for c.40 metres and has flat coping. Square-plan gate-piers with low pyramidal caps; pair of gates with alternating standards and dogbars and square principals with urn finials.

Listing NGR: NZ2587923590

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Legacy System number:
112131
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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