Newcastle, Westgate Road, Westgate Hill School, lodge

HER Number:
8707

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Westgate Road, Westgate Hill School, lodge

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Lodge

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Lodge to Westgate Hill School. Probably early C20. Red brick and tile-hanging with some half-timbering; Lakeland slate roof. T-plan on first floor with pent extruded bays filling corners. Overhanging first floor hung with fish-scale tiles. Half- glazed door in extruded bay recessed behind carved corner-post. Sashes with upper glazing bars. Central brick stack with pilasters and corbelled cornice. Walls and piers: brick, red sandstone and terra-cotta. Chamfered plinth to walls with chamfered stone coping; stone-coped plinth to square piers with terra-cotta cornices and ball finials. Gates: wrought and cast iron; quatrefoil-pierced bands to gates with spear finials and twisted uprights; upward-curved top rail; the left gate has cast-iron 'GIRLS AND INFANTS' and the right 'BOYS' plaques attached. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2322

Northing:
6437

Grid Reference:
NZ23226437

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/586; PCA, 2010, Westgate Hill Primary School, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Assessment