Former Parish School is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. School, workshops. 1 related planning application.
Former Parish School
- WRENN ID
- open-loft-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1985
- Type
- School, workshops
- Address
- Former Parish School, Dunston Road, NE11 9EE
- OS grid reference
- NZ 226 626
- Coordinates
- 54.95757, -1.64735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former parish school, now used as workshops, was built in 1818. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone, featuring large quoins and ashlar dressings, and has a low-pitched Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings. The building is single-storey and has eight bays. In the eighth bay, there is a recessed four-panelled door set under a stone lintel. All bays contain round-section mullioned and transomed windows, with those in the second, fourth, and sixth bays located under gabled dormers that break the eaves. Each window has flat stone sills, irregular-block jambs, and wood lintels. On the right side of the building, there are long windows beneath the inscription "ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION, ANNO DOMINI, 1818. THE HON. AND REV. EDWARD GREY, RECTOR." Notably, the subscribers included the Bishop of Durham and the trustees of Lord Crewe, as recorded in W. Bourn's "Annals of the Parish of Whickham," published in 1892.
Local climate
Former Parish School receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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