Wellington Lane, Former Simpson Street School
Wellington Lane, Former Simpson Street School
HER Number
7232
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Wellington Lane, Former Simpson Street School
Place
Deptford
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Education
Site Type: Broad
School
Site Type: Specific
Secondary School
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
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
438700
Northing
557560
Grid Reference
NZ438700557560
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/10/234;