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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