Description

NZ 41 NE (4919)
3/67
2.7.76

MIDDLESBROUGH
PARK ROAD NORTH
NZ 41 NE (4919)
north side,
Nazareth House

II
G.V.

Roman Catholic girl's school 1905/06 by E. Goldie (London). Chapel, 1894
by Weatherill and Whipham. Now used as home for elderly. Smooth red brick
in English bond, with painted stone dressings. Lakeland slate roofs; lead
tower roof. Roughly U-plan with chapel in north-east wing and tower linked
to north-west wing. Queen Anne style. 2-storey, 13-bay entrance front,
with chamfered plinth, has slightly-projecting 3-bay centre with dentilled,
open-pedimented attic storey and central, 2-storey, 1-bay,
slightly-projecting mock porch. 3-panel double doors and overlight with
glazing bars in segmental-pedimented Roman Doric doorcase. Slightly
narrower first floor of porch, has enriched scrolled shoulders and shaped
window apron. Narrow ground-floor windows flank porch. Sash windows with
glazing bars, moulded sills and gauged-brick flat arches, keyed on first
floor. Band between floors, chamfered quoins and continuous moulded
cornice. Mid/late C20 sun-lounge extension partly obscures ground floor at
left. Attic storey has central niche with fluted head in keyed Roman Doric
surround, with figure of Virgin and Child. Ball-and-cross finial on
pediment. Iron rainwater heads dated 1906. Steeply-pitched, hipped,
flat-topped roof, sprocketed at eaves. Alternately triangular and
segmental-pedimented roof dormers with similar windows. Corniced ridge and
right end stacks. 2-bay left and right returns. 3-stage tower has similar
windows in lower stages; plain band and cornice below keyed oeil-de-boeuf in
3rd stage. Swept ribbed hipped roof has ogee-domed cupola, with 2-bay wood
arcades in each face, and turned wood finial. 2-storey- and-attic, one-bay
link joins tower to end of north-west wing with similar 10-bay (west) garden
front, one-bay right return and 5-bay left return. One-storey chapel has
2-light mullioned windows,with cusped heads, in chamfered openings under
hoodmoulds. Niche in north end has figure of saint under swept gabled hood.
North-east and north-west porches and vestries. Plain, largely altered
interior. Sun lounge extension, mid/late C20 extensions, adjoining rear
angle of north-west wing and south-west corner of tower and remains of mid
C19 house adjoining east end are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4991819352

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432643

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