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Latitude: 54.9113 / 54°54'40"N
Longitude: -1.3978 / 1°23'52"W
OS Eastings: 438702
OS Northings: 557567
OS Grid: NZ387575
Mapcode National: GBR V99.YV
Mapcode Global: WHD55.HTL8
Plus Code: 9C6WWJ62+GV
Entry Name: Former Simpson Street Secondary School
Listing Date: 17 October 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279880
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391643
ID on this website: 101279880
Location: Ayre's Quay, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR4
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: Millfield
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sunderland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Millfield St Mark
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: School building
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
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