Bensham, Bensham Road, Windmill Hills Schools

HER Number:
8318

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Bensham, Bensham Road, Windmill Hills Schools

Place:
Bensham

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Education

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
School

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Former Windmill Hills Schools. Northern part now Council Offices. 1879, dated on plaque on playground front (now gone?). Red brick, high pitched Welsh slate roof. Two tall storeys. Slightly irregular five-gabled front with string courses. Tall windows with gauged brick arches and fluted keystones. Two entrances, each having twin round arches of shaped bricks resting on squat columns. Two cupolas, one crowning a square tower. Two storey outer wings. On the road front, the outer gables are shaped in the Flemish manner. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2525

Northing:
6299

Grid Reference:
NZ25256299

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 5 & 7/56; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 29; Elain Harwood, 2010, England's Schools - History, architecture and adaptation, page 46; ASUD, 2018, Former Windmill Hills Nursing Home, Gateshead, Building Recording; ASUD, 2018, Former Windmill Hills Nursing Home, Gateshead, Assessment