Durham School South Building, Frontage Building And Gateway

QUARRYHEADS LANE NZ 24 SE (West side)

4/379 Durham School South Building, Frontage building and Gateway

GV II

School buildings. South building 1843-4 by Salvin and Pickering incorporating an earlier house. Frontage building of slightly later date. Gateway 1927 as memorial to Graham Campbell Kerr. Roughly-coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings in older parts; hammer-dressed squared stone in later parts, with similar dressings. Welsh slate roofs with stone copings and stacks, leaded belfry spire. Modified Gothic style.

South building at left 2 storeys, 5 gabled bays, the 2 at right projecting. Small Tudor-arched door at right of 3rd bay. Two-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, those on ground floor under continuous drip string raised to form hoodmoulds above 2 right windows; 4-centred relieving arches above. First-floor left windowsin half-dormer gables except for 1 small window at left of 3rd bay, and round small lights in right gable peaks. Coped plinth, alternating quoins. Large square gable footstones. Left return shows ground-floor windows in raised ashlar panels.

Frontage building 2 storeys, 5 irregular gabled bays. Large buttress at left. In left bay a large projecting 2-centred-arched entrance, double-chamfered and with carved spandrels. Band of heraldic panels above. Mullioned-and-transomed windows, the upper ones with geometric traceried heads. To right of entrance a small extruded octagonal belfry tower with cusped louvred bell-openings in drum, and swept spire. Small openings or tracery panels in gables. Third bay projects and has taller gable with cresset finial; roll finials elsewhere.

Gateway triple screen with large double-chamfered, 2-centred central carriage archway and flanking pedestrian entrances with flattened Tudor-arched heads under hoodmoulds. Screen wall with rolled coping stepped up to low central gable.

Listing NGR: NZ2694341965