Westgate Road, Westgate Hill School, lodge

Westgate Road, Westgate Hill School, lodge

HER Number
8707
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Westgate Road, Westgate Hill School, lodge
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Lodge
Site Type: Specific
Lodge
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
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
423220
Northing
564370
Grid Reference
NZ423220564370
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