Former Simpson Street Secondary School
FORMER SIMPSON STREET SECONDARY SCHOOL, WELLINGTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279880
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Simpson Street Secondary School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SIMPSON STREET SECONDARY SCHOOL, WELLINGTON LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03868/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279880
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Simpson Street Secondary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SIMPSON STREET SECONDARY SCHOOL, WELLINGTON 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 SIMPSON STREET SECONDARY SCHOOL, WELLINGTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 38702 57566
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3857 WELLINGTON LANE 920-1/10/234 (North West side) Former Simpson Street Secondary School
GV II
Formerly known as: Simpson Street School WELLINGTON STREET. Secondary school, now workshops. 1883. Possibly by GA Middlemiss. Brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and stone gable coping. Long range with left tower on rising ground; some Gothic detail. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3:4:4:8:3 windows. Left end a canted return to Simpson Street in a slightly projecting polygonal tower; near-central and right end groups project slightly under gables. Step up to plain door and overlight recessed under flat stone lintel at right of tower; plain double doors under flat stone lintels with blind panel above at left of central gabled section and under third window in 8-bay section. Chamfered stone lintels and sills to paired 4-pane sashes on first floor in front plane of left tower and single sash below; near-central gable has raised segment heads in drip string over ground floor windows and left door; similar dripmould over triple windows in right gabled section and over central pair in 8-bay group, with stone-transomed first floor windows directly above breaking through eaves in dormer with hipped roof. 6-foil roundel in central gable peak, raised dripmould over paired overlights to group of 3 first-floor windows in right gable peak. Left tower has octagonal hipped roof with swept eaves to spirelet on open belfry; chimney at right front rising through eaves. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 27).
Listing NGR: NZ3870257566
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391643
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 27
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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