West Lodge, Tunstall School (Senior Section) With Attached Garden Wall

WEST LODGE, TUNSTALL SCHOOL (SENIOR SECTION) WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, TUNSTALL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292021
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:
West Lodge, Tunstall School (Senior Section) With Attached Garden Wall
Statutory Address:
WEST LODGE, TUNSTALL SCHOOL (SENIOR SECTION) WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, TUNSTALL ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292021
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1978
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
West Lodge, Tunstall School (Senior Section) With Attached Garden Wall
Statutory Address 1:
WEST LODGE, TUNSTALL SCHOOL (SENIOR SECTION) WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, TUNSTALL ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WEST LODGE, TUNSTALL SCHOOL (SENIOR SECTION) WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, TUNSTALL ROAD

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 39284 56452

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SW TUNSTALL ROAD 920-1/21/227 (East side) 10/11/78 West Lodge, Tunstall School (senior section) with attached garden wall (Formerly Listed as: TUNSTALL ROAD (East side) West Lodge)

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Small villa, now part of Tunstall Independent School, with wall attached enclosing garden to W. c1840 with late C19 alterations. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick and ashlar chimneys. Wall attached rubble with brick dressings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 windows; one-storey porch added at left and square projecting bay window added on right return. Central half-glazed door and overlight with glazing bars in high panelled reveals, possibly a Sunderland type door fixed back permanently, in doorcase of ashlar Tuscan columns and high entablature with blocking course. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars; giant angle pilasters; later addition of stone frieze with eaves brackets; hipped roof with ridge, left end and rear chimneys. Left porch has garden door and sidelights under single wide wedge stone lintel; right return has tripartite window in projecting bays with yellow-stain painted floral frieze; door inserted in window to right. Left return of left porch on bend of Tunstall Road has internal steps within stone surround with tongue-stopped chamfer and WEST LODGE carved above shaped arch. INTERIOR shows further high quality decorated glass of c1900 in this porch, with bulrushes, lilies, birds and foliage. Most windows have internal panelled shutters; entrance hall has egg and dart stucco cornice; some other C19 stucco detail. High wall attached runs from porch on left return along W boundary of garden and is ramped up at left over door in brick jambs.

Listing NGR: NZ3928456452

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Legacy System number:
391629
Legacy System:
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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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