Bewicke Schools

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.