Deptford, Wellington Lane, Former Simpson Street School

HER Number:
7232

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Deptford, Wellington Lane, Former Simpson Street School

Place:
Deptford

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Education

Site Type: Broad:
School

Site Type: Specific:
Secondary School

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
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. 2 storeys. Left end a canted return to Simpson Street in a polygonal tower. Step up to plain door and overlight recessed under flat stone lintel at right of tower. Plain double doors with blind panel above. Stone lintels and sills to sash windows. Tower has octagonal hipped roof, spirelet on open belfry. Chimney at right front. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3870

Northing:
5756

Grid Reference:
NZ38705756

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/10/234;