Description

MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE ALSTON ROAD
NY9425
(South side)
24/89 Community Centre
GV II
School, now community centre. Dated 1861 in central gable; for London Lead
Company.

Roughly-dressed coarse sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings;
roof 2 colours of graduated slates, with stone gable copings. One storey, 5
bays, the central projecting under gable; set-back one-storey, one-bay porch
extensions at left and right. Pointed-arched boarded doors, with strap
hinges, under gabled hood on head-stopped brackets. 4-light window in gabled
centre under relieving arch, and 3-light windows in other bays have stone
mullions and transoms, alternate-block jambs and drainage holes in sloping
sills, all under relieving arches. Diagonal buttresses; steeply-gabled bell
cote at left of front gable. Returns have large roundel with geometric tracery,
that on right return blocked, flanked by small 2-centred-arched openings.
Scrolled wrought-iron finial on bellcote; steeply-pitched roofs have
overlapping gable copings.

Listing NGR: NY9450025585

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570761

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