Cochrane Terrace, School

HER Number

6061

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Cochrane Terrace, School

Place

Dinnington

Map Sheet

NZ27SW

Class

Education

Site Type: Broad

School

Site Type: Specific

School

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. School, now club. Dated 1874 on lintel; paid for by Matthew Bell. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar quoins, plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof. L-plan. Recessed door in chamfered stone surround in set-back porch. Three corniced ashlar chimneys. Attractive nineteenth century wrought-iron railings on low stone walls. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

420860

Northing

573220

Grid Reference

NZ420860573220

Sources

1st edition Ordnance Survey map; The Archaeological Practice, 2016, Dinnington School - Historic Building Recording and Geophysical Survey