St Helen's Auckland Junior School and Attached Walls and Railings
ST HELEN'S AUCKLAND JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, MANOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210110
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Helen's Auckland Junior School and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ST HELEN'S AUCKLAND JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, MANOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210110
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Helen's Auckland Junior School and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST HELEN'S AUCKLAND JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, MANOR ROAD
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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.
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:
- ST HELEN'S AUCKLAND JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, MANOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 18743 26767
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ1826 MANOR ROAD, St Helen Auckland 634-1/10/155 (North side) St Helen's Auckland Junior School and attached walls and railings
GV II
County junior school with walls and railings attached. c1900. MATERIALS: bright red brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with red ridge tiles and ashlar copings. Brick and ashlar walls and arches, wrought-iron gates and railings. PLAN: double range with central rear wing. EXTERIOR: Free Baroque style. One storey, 6:9:6 windows in groups of 3. Right end door, now blocked and window inserted, has ashlar surround with well-cut letters COOKERY below segmental arch with ramped parapet. Ashlar sill band. All windows 2-pane lower lights, glazing bars to upper lights, with bottom-hinged opening transom light. Side windows of each group have shallow segmental heads, central windows taller. Central 3 groups have front gables, with pilasters flanking central window and rising to ashlar gable peak. All central windows in stone architraves with long voussoirs rising to semicircular heads, forming segmental pediments breaking forward from roof in outer groups where central windows break eaves, and in central gabled groups flanked by pilasters. Roof has ashlar gable coping on raised kneelers, front gables also have ball finials on high plinth. Truncated ridge ventilators. Small right end brick chimney with ashlar cornice. Brick front walls with ashlar coping are ramped up to end arched entrances with ashlar bands on piers, and ashlar lintel with low segmental head: at left, inscribed BOYS, and at right, GIRLS, in low relief capitals. Short stretches of wall break forward from ends of school and link to front wall. Wrought-iron gates in each archway have tendril terminals to principals, and scrolled patterns.
Listing NGR: NZ1874426780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385692
- 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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