Description

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ1826 MANOR ROAD, St Helen Auckland
634-1/10/155 (North side)
St Helen's Auckland Junior School
and attached walls and railings

GV II

County junior school with walls and railings attached. c1900.
MATERIALS: bright red brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate
roof with red ridge tiles and ashlar copings. Brick and ashlar
walls and arches, wrought-iron gates and railings.
PLAN: double range with central rear wing.
EXTERIOR: Free Baroque style. One storey, 6:9:6 windows in
groups of 3. Right end door, now blocked and window inserted,
has ashlar surround with well-cut letters COOKERY below
segmental arch with ramped parapet. Ashlar sill band. All
windows 2-pane lower lights, glazing bars to upper lights,
with bottom-hinged opening transom light. Side windows of each
group have shallow segmental heads, central windows taller.
Central 3 groups have front gables, with pilasters flanking
central window and rising to ashlar gable peak.
All central windows in stone architraves with long voussoirs
rising to semicircular heads, forming segmental pediments
breaking forward from roof in outer groups where central
windows break eaves, and in central gabled groups flanked by
pilasters.
Roof has ashlar gable coping on raised kneelers, front gables
also have ball finials on high plinth. Truncated ridge
ventilators. Small right end brick chimney with ashlar
cornice. Brick front walls with ashlar coping are ramped up to
end arched entrances with ashlar bands on piers, and ashlar
lintel with low segmental head: at left, inscribed BOYS, and
at right, GIRLS, in low relief capitals.
Short stretches of wall break forward from ends of school and
link to front wall. Wrought-iron gates in each archway have
tendril terminals to principals, and scrolled patterns.

Listing NGR: NZ1874426780

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505157

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