Premises Occupied By Wg Mackay Limited

ROTHBURY HAW HILL NU 0501 (North side) 25/286 Premises occupied by W.G. Mackay Ltd. GV II

Former school, dated 1841. Tooled stone with cut dressings; blue slates on range fronting Bridge Street, purple slates on range fronting Haw Hill. L-plan. Tudor style.

Elevation to Haw Hill. 2 storeys, 2 + 1 bays. Slightly-projecting gabled part on right shows chamfered plinth and later doorway beneath large 3-light mullioned-and-transomed window with hoodmould. Pointed slit under coped gable on moulded kneelers carrying bellcote with 4-curved arch and moulded finial. Lower left part shows vertical-panelled door on right under 4-centred arch with hoodmould; shield with date above. Shop window to left in older cart entrance with chamfered jambs and timber lintel, under six-light casement. Coped left gable with rebuilt end stack. 3-bay right return, to Bridge Street shows lower windows with renewed glazing and 2-light mullioned windows in gablets holding 6-pane sashes, except for that to right, lost mullion.

The former Tomlinson School, founded on bequest by the vicar of that name.

Later extensions to west and at rear are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU0585901652