Tyne and Wear HER(8148): Hebburn, Church Street, Nos. 2-5, St. Andrew's Centre - Details
8148
S Tyneside
Hebburn, Church Street, Nos. 2-5, St. Andrew's Centre
Hebburn
NZ36NW
Civil
Meeting Hall
Church Hall
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Formerly St Andrew's Church Hall. Community Centre and school. Circa 1872
by R J Johnson of Newcastle. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar plinth, quoins
and cornice; roof of Welsh slate; wooden spirelet. Plan a long rectangle with
wings at rear corners and classrooms adjacent to rear; Gothic style. 2 storeys, 6
bays having rectangular 3-light windows below. Gothic 2-light into gabled dormers
above; entrances in extreme left and right bays, that at the right with original
'Girls School' inscription; saddleback staircase towers adjoin at rear corners,
Gothic windows to front. Roof has dormers front and rear in each bay, those at the
rear alternating with wide chimneys, all but one now truncated; 2 end chimneys;
all chimneys corniced. Flat stone gable coping; central louvred timber spirelet. LISTED GRADE 2
3053
6506
NZ30536506
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 1/75; Peter Ryder, 2014, St. Andrew Presbyterian Church & St. Andrew's Centre - Historic Buildings Recording; NECT, 2015, National Heritage at Risk Grade II Project