Former School is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. School.

Former School

WRENN ID
rough-pedestal-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle upon Tyne
Constituency
Cramlington and Killingworth MP: Emma Foody (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
School
Address
Former School, Cochrane Terrace, Dinnington
OS grid reference
NZ 208 732
Coordinates
55.05312, -1.6749
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former school, now a club, was built in 1874 at the expense of Matthew Bell. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone with ashlar quoins, a plinth, and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring flat stone gable copings. The building has an L-plan layout and is one storey high. The main block consists of two bays by one bay, with a lower porch on the right side and a two-bay left return that includes a rear wing. The entrance features a recessed door in a chamfered stone surround within a set-back porch. The main block has three-light windows and the rear wing has two-light windows, all in similar stone surrounds. There are drip moulds and pointed heads above the three-light windows in the left return gable. The building is capped with three corniced ashlar chimneys.

Local climate

Former School receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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