Hebburn, Church Street, Nos. 2-5, St. Andrew's Centre

HER Number:
8148

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Hebburn, Church Street, Nos. 2-5, St. Andrew's Centre

Place:
Hebburn

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Civil

Site Type: Broad:
Meeting Hall

Site Type: Specific:
Church Hall

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
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

Easting:
3053

Northing:
6506

Grid Reference:
NZ30536506

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
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