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Latitude: 54.6593 / 54°39'33"N
Longitude: -1.6704 / 1°40'13"W
OS Eastings: 421361
OS Northings: 529403
OS Grid: NZ213294
Mapcode National: GBR JGSK.5K
Mapcode Global: WHC58.94TZ
Plus Code: 9C6WM85H+PR
Entry Name: Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I Academy
Listing Date: 23 May 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1196584
English Heritage Legacy ID: 385754
ID on this website: 101196584
Location: Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Bishop Auckland
Built-Up Area: Bishop Auckland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Bishop Auckland
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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NZ22NW
634-1/5/123
BISHOP AUCKLAND
SOUTH CHURCH ROAD (East side)
Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I Academy
(Formerly listed as Toilet blocks and storage buildings to King James I School)
GV
II
Toilet blocks, former cycle shed, and storage building to King James I Grammar School, now Bishop Auckland Comprehensive School (qv). Dated 1910, with c1962 alterations.
MATERIALS: coursed squared stone with ashlar pilasters and dressings. Lakeland slate roof with grey ridge tiles.
PLAN: three buildings linked by boundary wall, links obscured by additions. All have quoins, stone mullioned windows with moulded sills and ashlar lintels, eaves bands, and stone gutter cornices.
EXTERIOR: One storey, 1:7:9 bays. North elevation to drive has rainwater heads dated 1910. East building one bay with two-light window at eaves, and boarded double doors in left return. Central toilet block has open arched porch, with keyed round-headed arches at sides on square columns. Formerly linked to corresponding porch on school building opposite by roof forming covered way. 3x3-light windows at eaves at either side. Hipped roof on porch. West building has door with alternate block jambs and flat stone lintel at left, two-light window beside door and in right end bay. Between these, four bays have Doric colonnade now blocked and with small high windows inserted. This may have been cycle shed or playtime shelter. All visible returns of buildings have open pediments on pilasters.
Included for group value.
Listing NGR: NZ2136129403
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