Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I Academy
Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I Academy, South Church Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196584
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I Academy
- Statutory Address:
- Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I Academy, South Church Road
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05751/35
- Rights:
- © Mr Alan Bradley. Source: Historic England Archive
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196584
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I Academy
- Statutory Address 1:
- Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I Academy, South Church Road
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:
- Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I Academy, South Church Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop Auckland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21361 29403
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22June 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards
NZ22NW
634-1/5/123
BISHOP AUCKLAND
SOUTH CHURCH ROAD (East side)
Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I Academy
(Formerly listed as Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I School)
GV
II
Toilet blocks, former cycle shed, and storage building to King James I Grammar School, now Bishop Auckland Comprehensive School (qv). Dated 1910, with c1962 alterations.
MATERIALS: coursed squared stone with ashlar pilasters and dressings. Lakeland slate roof with grey ridge tiles.
PLAN: three buildings linked by boundary wall, links obscured by additions. All have quoins, stone mullioned windows with moulded sills and ashlar lintels, eaves bands, and stone gutter cornices.
EXTERIOR: One storey, 1:7:9 bays. North elevation to drive has rainwater heads dated 1910. East building one bay with two-light window at eaves, and boarded double doors in left return. Central toilet block has open arched porch, with keyed round-headed arches at sides on square columns. Formerly linked to corresponding porch on school building opposite by roof forming covered way. 3x3-light windows at eaves at either side. Hipped roof on porch. West building has door with alternate block jambs and flat stone lintel at left, two-light window beside door and in right end bay. Between these, four bays have Doric colonnade now blocked and with small high windows inserted. This may have been cycle shed or playtime shelter. All visible returns of buildings have open pediments on pilasters.
Included for group value.
Listing NGR: NZ2136129403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385754
- 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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