Description

QUARRYHEADS LANE
NZ 24 SE (West side)

4/379 Durham School South
Building, Frontage
building and Gateway

GV II

School buildings. South building 1843-4 by Salvin and Pickering incorporating
an earlier house. Frontage building of slightly later date. Gateway 1927 as
memorial to Graham Campbell Kerr. Roughly-coursed squared sandstone with ashlar
dressings in older parts; hammer-dressed squared stone in later parts, with
similar dressings. Welsh slate roofs with stone copings and stacks, leaded
belfry spire. Modified Gothic style.

South building at left 2 storeys, 5 gabled bays, the 2 at right projecting.
Small Tudor-arched door at right of 3rd bay. Two-light mullioned-and-transomed
windows, those on ground floor under continuous drip string raised to form
hoodmoulds above 2 right windows; 4-centred relieving arches above. First-floor
left windowsin half-dormer gables except for 1 small window at left of 3rd bay,
and round small lights in right gable peaks. Coped plinth, alternating quoins.
Large square gable footstones. Left return shows ground-floor windows in raised
ashlar panels.

Frontage building 2 storeys, 5 irregular gabled bays. Large buttress at left.
In left bay a large projecting 2-centred-arched entrance, double-chamfered and
with carved spandrels. Band of heraldic panels above. Mullioned-and-transomed
windows, the upper ones with geometric traceried heads. To right of entrance
a small extruded octagonal belfry tower with cusped louvred bell-openings in
drum, and swept spire. Small openings or tracery panels in gables. Third bay
projects and has taller gable with cresset finial; roll finials elsewhere.

Gateway triple screen with large double-chamfered, 2-centred central carriage
archway and flanking pedestrian entrances with flattened Tudor-arched heads
under hoodmoulds. Screen wall with rolled coping stepped up to low central gable.

Listing NGR: NZ2694341965

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596672

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability