East Building of Barnes School
EAST BUILDING OF BARNES SCHOOL, MOUNT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208910
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- East Building of Barnes School
- Statutory Address:
- EAST BUILDING OF BARNES SCHOOL, MOUNT ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-10-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/01201/34
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208910
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- East Building of Barnes School
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST BUILDING OF BARNES SCHOOL, MOUNT 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:
- EAST BUILDING OF BARNES SCHOOL, MOUNT ROAD
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 37972 55969
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE MOUNT ROAD 920-1/4/144 (North side) 10/11/78 East building of Barnes School (Formerly Listed as: MOUNT ROAD SOUTH (North side) East and west buildings to Barnes School)
GV II
School. c1900. Bright red brick with terracotta dressings and slate roof. Symmetrical with 2 storeys, 2:2:3:5:3:2:2 windows. Left corner has pentice roof on 2-storey porch, with fat terracotta columns on brick base, over steps up to doors. One window beside it and two above. Central section has 5 full-height round-arched recesses, with finialled lesenes between, containing large windows, the lower square-headed with panelled aprons, the upper round-headed with arcaded brick-panelled aprons, top corbel table. Flanking sections have 3 windows on each floor, the lower 3 with long triple terracotta keys, the upper 3 stepped under central straight dripmould below raised segmental head of shaped gable. Stair towers between these and end bays have 2 small windows below 4 on ground floor, a further 4 with arcaded apron to central pair below top single round-headed light in arched brick panel below roof parapet. Most windows mullion and transom with upper glazing bars; round-headed windows have full glazing bars. Hipped roofs over entrance bays, high swept pyramids with lucarnes over adjacent towers, cross ridges to gables, and long central roof with 5 hipped dormers and tapered high ridge ventilator with domed top.
Listing NGR: NZ3797255969
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391521
- 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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