St Cuthbert's School
ST CUTHBERT'S SCHOOL, CHURCH BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240377
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- St Cuthbert's School
- Statutory Address:
- ST CUTHBERT'S SCHOOL, CHURCH BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240377
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- St Cuthbert's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST CUTHBERT'S SCHOOL, CHURCH BANK
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:
- ST CUTHBERT'S SCHOOL, CHURCH BANK
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 09291 52661
Details
NZ 05 SE CONSETT CHURCH BANK
(North side) Shotley Bridge 5/24 (inset) St. Cuthbert's School GV II
Parish school. 1882 by Smith and Son; site given by Robert Dickinson of Shotley House. Dated 1881 and 1897 on porches. Snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Early English style. One storey, with basement at west on slope of hill; 5 bays. Chamfered 2-centred arches in inner returns of porches, open and with recessed double door and overlight at left, and with diagonally-boarded door at right; front gables of porches have plate-traceried 3-light windows, with dated shields on leaf-stopped strings in gable peaks; large plate-traceried 3-light window in front gable of left wing; 2 groups of 3 lancets in main range between porches. Flat gable copings, with roll-moulded finials, on porches; steeply- pitched roof has similar copings with stone cross finials; central Gothic- arcaded fleche with wrought-iron cross finial. L-plan, with gabled left wing overlapping left porch, and matching porch in right bay. Source: G. Neasham, The History and Biographies of West Durham, Durham 1883,83. Included for group value
Listing NGR: NZ0929152661
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438631
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Neasham, G, The History and Biographies of West Durham in The History and Biographies of West Durham, (1883), 83
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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