College Street, Sutherland Building

College Street, Sutherland Building

HER Number
6240
District
Newcastle
Site Name
College Street, Sutherland Building
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Education
Site Type: Broad
College
Site Type: Specific
Medical College
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Medical college, later dental hospital and school, in use as a Polytechnic building at the time of listing. Foundation stone dated 1887; completed 1895. By Dunn, Hansom and Dunn. Dark red brick and terracotta with ashlar-coped plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs at rear. U-plan; Tudor style. 2 storeys, 5:1:4:1 bays with central 3-stage tower and right end canted bay. [flower has open arch to stone porch with benches, niches, and panelled barrel-vault. Bracketed 2-storey oriel above with terracotta ornament. Mullioned-and-transomed windows have central semicircle and round-headed lights; similar glazing to other windows of intermediate bays, with blank tipper left section; canted right end bay. Sill and floor strings; gargoyles and battlemented parapets over end bays and tower; corbel table to intermediate sections. High-pitched roof over bays to right of tower. Historical note: founded as University of Durham College of Medicine.' LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425130
Northing
564780
Grid Reference
NZ425130564780
Sources
Department of National Heritage, 1987, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 17/429; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (second edition), p 453; British Medical Association, The 89th Annual Meeting, Newcastle upon Tyne, July 1921, Guide Book; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 40 and 193; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1355259