Former Lodge to King James I Academy
The Lodge, 59, South Church Road, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7LX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218386
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lodge to King James I Academy
- Statutory Address:
- The Lodge, 59, South Church Road, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7LX
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218386
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lodge to King James I Academy
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Lodge, 59, South Church Road, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7LX
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:
- The Lodge, 59, South Church Road, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7LX
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 21271 29390
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
634-1/5/121
BISHOP AUCKLAND
SOUTH CHURCH ROAD (East side)
No 59
The Lodge
(Formerly listed as King James I School Lodge)
GV
II
Lodge to Bishop Auckland Girls' Grammar School, now Middle School of King James I Comprehensive School (qv), with yard walls attached at rear. 1910.
MATERIALS: irregular courses of squared stone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings. Roof small thick slates with stone gable coping to porch, stone chimneys with ashlar dressings, and pierced dark grey tile ridge cresting.
PLAN: L-plan with yard walls along remaining two sides of square.
EXTERIOR: free Jacobean style. Two storeys, three bays to front. Central full-height porch with irregular quoins has chamfered stone surround to boarded door under first-floor string; irregular block jambs to single casement above eaves level below shallow ogee gable. Plain lozenge panels above door and window. Three-light window to left of door has irregular block jambs and flat stone mullions, with small-paned metal casements. Single casement to right of door. First floor blind. Quoins rise through eaves as flat coped pilasters. Porch gable coping has stone bud finial. Transverse ridge chimneys to right of porch and on rear wing. Right return has wide pilasters breaking gable feet, and a three-light window on each floor.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high yard walls have flat stone coping.
Listing NGR: NZ2127129390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385755
- 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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