Description

MORPETH

NEWGATE STREET
(East side)

NZ 1986
11.8.50
22/258

No. 94 (formerly
listed as Morpeth
High School for Girls)

GV
II

Offices, formerly a house, then a school, now Education Offices. Mid C18 and
c.1840. In 3 sections.

Mid C18 centre section: Brick in English Garden Wall Bond. Stone slate roof.
3 storeys, 4 bays. Rusticated quoins. 12-pane sashes with moulded sills and
flat arches with moulded keystone. Band above ground floor, and 2nd floor sill
band.

Right section c.1840: Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Tudor style. 2 storeys,
4 windows on ground floor, 3 above. 1st-floor central window is a canted
castellated oriel. Outer windows have gables over. Castellated Tudor-arched
carriage entry to right. Doorway to rear in facade with 2 projecting square
towers: windows with hoodmoulds and castellated parapet.

Left section is not of the same special interest as the rest of the building.
Early C20 Teachers' Centre to rear not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ1964986277

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26590163

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014