Description

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

External Links

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