Former Lodge to King James I Academy

The Former Lodge to King James I Academy, located at 59 South Church Road in Bishop Auckland, was built in 1910 and is designed in a free Jacobean style. It served as the lodge for the Bishop Auckland Girls' Grammar School, which is now part of the Middle School of King James I Comprehensive School.

The building is constructed from irregular courses of squared stone, featuring an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings. The roof is covered with small thick slates and has stone gable coping on the porch, along with stone chimneys that have ashlar dressings and pierced dark grey tile ridge cresting.

The lodge has an L-shaped plan, with yard walls along the remaining two sides of the square. The exterior is two storeys high and has three bays on the front. A central full-height porch, accented with irregular quoins, features a chamfered stone surround around a boarded door, which is situated under a first-floor string. Above the door, there is a single casement window set below a shallow ogee gable, with plain lozenge panels above both the door and window. To the left of the door is a three-light window with irregular block jambs and flat stone mullions, fitted with small-paned metal casements. There is a single casement window to the right of the door, while the first floor remains blind. The quoins extend through the eaves as flat coped pilasters, and the porch gable coping is topped with a stone bud finial. The building features transverse ridge chimneys to the right of the porch and on the rear wing. The right return of the lodge has wide pilasters that break the gable feet, with a three-light window on each floor.

The high yard walls surrounding the lodge are topped with flat stone coping.