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Latitude: 54.71 / 54°42'35"N
Longitude: -1.7231 / 1°43'22"W
OS Eastings: 417941
OS Northings: 535032
OS Grid: NZ179350
Mapcode National: GBR JFDZ.RD
Mapcode Global: WHC4V.HWQ4
Plus Code: 9C6WP75G+XQ
Entry Name: Former Schools
Listing Date: 28 May 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1228809
English Heritage Legacy ID: 403507
ID on this website: 101228809
Location: Helmington Row, County Durham, DL15
County: County Durham
Electoral Ward/Division: Crook
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Crook
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Architectural structure School building
CROOK AND WILLINGTON A 690 (South side)
NZ 13 NE
Helmington Row
24/12 Former schools
28.5.87
GV II
Board schools. Named and dated 1877 in plaque in right end bay. Snecked
sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone
gable copings and decorative ridge tiles; inserted ridge ventilators. Gothic
style. Symmetrical. One storey, 9 bays, the end bays gabled and the central
with half-hipped gable to front; lower porches in second bays from ends overlap
end bays slightly. Left porch has 2-centred arch with dripmould over boarded
door with elaborate hinges; ribbon with low-relief BOYS and GIRLS over door;
right porch has blocked door with INFANTS in ribbon; end bays contain large 2-
centred-arched dripmoulds over groups of 4 lancets and plate tracery above,
with central plaque in tracery at right carved in low relief with date and
BOARD SCHOOLS; left gable plaque removed. Central bay has stepped mullioned-
and-transomed 4-light window, with 2 lights above. Paired windows in intermediate
bays have chamfered surrounds with tongue stops. Roll-moulded apex on each
gable peak.
Listing NGR: NZ1794135032
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