Hetton le Hole, infants school
Hetton le Hole, infants school
HER Number
17113
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Hetton le Hole, infants school
Place
Hetton-le-Hole
Map Sheet
NZ34NE
Class
Education
Site Type: Broad
School
Site Type: Specific
Infant School
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Infants school (1873) supported by Hetton Coal Company closed in 1950s and reopened in 1961 as a library. Peter Ryder describes the building as roughly squared and coursed limestone with cut dressings, Welsh slate roofs with red tile ridge. T-plan buildings, the gables all have round-arched openings with brick heads apparently infilling larger Gothic arches, with blind quatrefoils above. The other windows have stop-chamfered lintels: modern porch to south end gable.
Easting
435280
Northing
547600
Grid Reference
NZ435280547600
Sources
Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas; Ordnance Survey Second Edition, 1896