Former Schools
FORMER SCHOOLS, A690
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228809
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Schools
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SCHOOLS, A690
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228809
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Schools
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SCHOOLS, A690
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:
- FORMER SCHOOLS, A690
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 17941 35032
Details
CROOK AND WILLINGTON A 690 (South side) NZ 13 NE Helmington Row 24/12 Former schools 28.5.87 GV II
Board schools. Named and dated 1877 in plaque in right end bay. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and decorative ridge tiles; inserted ridge ventilators. Gothic style. Symmetrical. One storey, 9 bays, the end bays gabled and the central with half-hipped gable to front; lower porches in second bays from ends overlap end bays slightly. Left porch has 2-centred arch with dripmould over boarded door with elaborate hinges; ribbon with low-relief BOYS and GIRLS over door; right porch has blocked door with INFANTS in ribbon; end bays contain large 2- centred-arched dripmoulds over groups of 4 lancets and plate tracery above, with central plaque in tracery at right carved in low relief with date and BOARD SCHOOLS; left gable plaque removed. Central bay has stepped mullioned- and-transomed 4-light window, with 2 lights above. Paired windows in intermediate bays have chamfered surrounds with tongue stops. Roll-moulded apex on each gable peak.
Listing NGR: NZ1794135032
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403507
- 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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