Former Parish School
FORMER PARISH SCHOOL, DUNSTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355141
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Former Parish School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER PARISH SCHOOL, DUNSTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355141
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Former Parish School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER PARISH SCHOOL, DUNSTON ROAD
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 PARISH SCHOOL, DUNSTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22682 62604
Details
NZ 26 SW WHICKHAM DUNSTON ROAD (east side) Dunston
5/123 Former parish school 100 metres north of White Gate.
G.V. II
School, now workshops. Dated 1818. Coursed squared sandstone with large quoins and ashlar dressings; low-pitched Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings. One storey, 8 bays. Recessed 4-panelled door under stone lintel in bay 8. Round-section mullioned and transomed windows in all bays, those in bays 2, 4 and 6 under gabled dormers breaking eaves; all with flat stone sills, irregular-block jambs and wood lintels. Long windows in right return under inscription ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION, ANNO DOMINI, 1818. THE HON. AND REV. EDWARD GREY, RECTOR. Historical note: subscribers included the Bishop of Durham and the trustees of Lord Crewe. Source: W. Bourn, Annals of the Parish of Whickham, Consett 1892, 101.
Listing NGR: NZ2268262604
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303888
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bourn, W, Annals of the Parish of Whickham, (1892), 101
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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