Sutherland Building

NZ 2564 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD (south side) 17/429 Sutherland Building G.V. II Medical college, later dental hospital and school, in use as a Polytechnic building at the time of listing. Foundation stone dated 1887; completed 1895. By Dunn, Hansom and Dunn. Dark red brick and terracotta with ashlar-coped plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs at rear. U-plan; Tudor style. 2 storeys, 5:1:4:1 bays with central 3-stage tower and right end canted bay. [flower has open arch to stone porch with benches, niches, and panelled barrel-vault. Bracketed 2-storey oriel above with terracotta ornament. Mullioned-and-transomed windows have central semicircle and round-headed lights; similar glazing to other windows of intermediate bays, with blank tipper left section; canted right end bay. Sill and floor strings; gargoyles and battlemented parapets over end bays and tower; corbel table to intermediate sections. High-pitched roof over bays to right of tower. Historical note: founded as University of Durham College of Medicine.

Listing NGR: NZ2511864786