Hetton le Hole, infants school

HER Number:
17113

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Hetton le Hole, infants school

Place:
Hetton-le-Hole

Map Sheet:
NZ34NE

Class:
Education

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
School

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Infants school (1873) supported by Hetton Coal Company closed in 1950s and reopened in 1961 as a library. Peter Ryder describes the building as roughly squared and coursed limestone with cut dressings, Welsh slate roofs with red tile ridge. T-plan buildings, the gables all have round-arched openings with brick heads apparently infilling larger Gothic arches, with blind quatrefoils above. The other windows have stop-chamfered lintels: modern porch to south end gable.

Easting:
3528

Northing:
4760

Grid Reference:
NZ35284760

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas; Ordnance Survey Second Edition, 1896