Ashfield Parents Centre And Ashfield Nursery School And Walls, Gate Piers And Gate Attached

NZ 26 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ELSWICK ROAD (south side) 11/227 Nos. 97-101 (odd) (Ashfield Parents Centre and Ashfield Nursery School and walls, gate piers and gate attached. G.V. II Ashfield House; c.1830 for Richardson, tanner; now in educational use. Sandstone ashlar; dark slate roofs, graduated over main block. U-plan with wings running forward to enclose garden. 2 storeys; main block 3 bays; central projecting enclosed Tuscan porch with 4 pilasters has 6-panelled door with overlight and narrow side lights; cornice and blocking course. Renewed glazing to tripartite window above in plain reveal with projecting stone sill; similar single windows in side bays. Eaves band, gutter cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof with no chimneys visible. Slightly lower wings have 3 similar windows on inner returns, some blind; end walls, to street have 4-panelled doors, that to No. 101 at right renewed, and one window each floor. Quadrant walls enclosing garden have ramped flat coping; 2 tall square gate piers, Gothic-panelled, have overlapping pyramidal coping. Wrought iron gate with dog bars.

Listing NGR: NZ2339863892