Bewicke Schools is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. School.
Bewicke Schools
- WRENN ID
- rough-step-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend MP: Mary Glindon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- School
- Address
- Bewicke Schools, Tynemouth Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 320 669
- Coordinates
- 54.99652, -1.50036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bewicke Schools is a school building constructed in 1878 by J. Johnstone for the Wallsend School Board. It is made of snecked sandstone with an ashlar plinth, dressings, and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone gable copings. The building has a symmetrical E-plan and consists of one storey with 15 bays.
The central section has a gable over the middle bay and is flanked by projecting gabled bays. Between these gables is a pent porch, and there are flat sections set back at each end. The central door is diagonal-boarded with an overlight, and similar doors are found in the end bays of the porch, supported by four pink sandstone Gothic columns on dwarf walls.
The windows include 2-light windows flanking the central door and in the flat sections, as well as 3-light windows in the gabled projections, all featuring stone mullions, transoms, and glazing bars. The gables have relieving arches and carved panels inscribed with "BOYS SCHOOL," "INFANT SCHOOL," and "GIRLS SCHOOL." The steeply-pitched roofs have roll-moulded apexes on the gable copings, supported by moulded kneelers, and there are ridge chimneys with plinths and copings, along with two small gabled ventilators. The building was empty at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Bewicke Schools receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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