Washington Hall School
WASHINGTON HALL SCHOOL, THE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185075
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Washington Hall School
- Statutory Address:
- WASHINGTON HALL SCHOOL, THE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185075
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Washington Hall School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WASHINGTON HALL SCHOOL, THE AVENUE
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:
- WASHINGTON HALL SCHOOL, THE AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 31093 56360
Details
NZ35NW WASHINGTON THE AVENUE (east side) 2/75 Washington Hall School
G.V. II
Large house now a residential school. 1854-7 by A.B. Higham of Newcastle, for Isaac Lowthian Bell, chemical manufacturer. Additions of 1865-7 by Philip Webb. Red brick with some diapering of dark headers; ashlar and terracotta quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale bands, some stone copings and finials; tall brick chimneys, either corniced or with conjoined round shafts. Free Tudor style. Complicated plan with long domestic wings. Two storeys and attics. Main (garden) front of 3 wide bays, the right bay gabled, has stone mullioned-and-transomed 6-light window at left, and 2 canted bays with parapets. Hoodmoulds to upper windows; moulded eaves cornice and one gabled dormer. Left return irregular with big 2-centred arch to recessed porch with stone benches. Right return similar to garden front but has 4-storey saddle- back tower, with leaded f1èche, in angle to east wing. In tower, a pinnacled frontispiece with Tudor-arched doorway. Windows mainly casements. Interior has some original fittings but has lost the Turkish bath installed by Webb. Historical note: the birthplace of Gertrude Bell, explorer and Middle Eastern expert.
Listing NGR: NZ3109356360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303233
- 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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