Former Leazes Board School
FORMER LEAZES BOARD SCHOOL, SYKE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240954
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Leazes Board School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER LEAZES BOARD SCHOOL, SYKE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240954
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Leazes Board School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER LEAZES BOARD SCHOOL, SYKE LANE
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 LEAZES BOARD SCHOOL, SYKE LANE
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 16753 56719
Details
NZ 15 NE STANLEY SYKE LANE (North side) Burnopfield 2/196 Former Leazes 4/10/86 Board School GV II School. 1893. Snecked sandstone with plinth, quoins and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with red ridge tiles. Jacobean style. One storey, 3:3:3 bays, the 3 central bays lower and recessed. Canted central entrance porch containing partly-glazed double door in architrave, with panel and pedimented shaped gable above, projecting above eaves of 3-sided conical roof. Small sashes with glazing bars in canted sides and on either side have flat stone lintels. End sections have central high, shaped gables over paired, keyed round-headed windows, and roundels in gable peaks; impost string of windows continues round corner pilasters with high moulded coping; ball finials on pilasters and gables, one missing. Inner returns have groups of 3 square-headed windows, the central higher and breaking eaves under scrolled pediments; outer bays blank. All windows have glazing bars and sloping stone sills. Steeply-pitched hipped roofs over wings have conical-topped round metal ventilators. Long left return in similar style. Lower classroom and cloakroom blocks at rear.
Listing NGR: NZ1675356719
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439553
- 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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