Description

HURWORTH BLIND LANE NZ 3010 (East side)

17/68 The Old Church 5/12/80 School (Nos.1 to 4 consecutive) (previously listed as Old Church School)

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Former church school converted into 4 dwellings c.1983. 1831; section at right added 1877. Tooled dressed sandstone; Welsh slate roof with stone chimney stacks. Tudor style. One and 2 storeys, 8 bays in all, the fourth bay projecting and 2-storeyed, the rest one storey. Continuous plinth. Doors in second and fifth bays under hoodmoulds; large projecting chimney breast at right of the latter and door with 4-centred head in right return of projecting bay. Mainly double-chamfered, stone-mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights under hoodmoulds; replaced casements. No. 1 at left has parapet which rises to form small gable above left window; canted left end corner surmounted by squat stack. Each section has a pitched roof with stone-coped gables. No. 3 has gabled bellcote with pointed openings. No. 1 has 2-bay left return with 2 lancets separated by a buttress supporting a squat octagonal bellcote with shouldered openings and a stone spirelet.

Listing NGR: NZ3038910179

External Links

• Wikidata Q26481200

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