Buddle Arts Centre

Buddle Arts Centre is a former school building, dating from 1876. It was designed by J. Johnstone as part of a competition for Wallsend Schools Board. The building is constructed of snecked sandstone with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with decorative ridge tiles. It is arranged on an E-plan with three rear wings and is built in the Scottish baronial style.

The building is one storey and attics, with gabled sections, and has 13 bays, including pent end porches. The design is symmetrical, with projecting gabled end bays and a recessed central section flanked by three-bay flat sections. A replacement door and overlight have been added to the centre, along with a window above. The sash windows have glazing bars, paired, in chamfered surrounds with bar stops and sloping cills. The windows in the gables are under drip strings with relieving arches. The building features crow-stepped gables on moulded kneelers, with a clove finial to the centre and a corbel table in the intermediate sections. A date panel is located at first floor level, centre. The roof incorporates a square, central bellcote with a fishscale roof. The original truncated ashlar chimneys, one of which remains to full height, are noteworthy. A linking, open-arched passage connects to a former headmaster's house to the left, while a similar open-arched porch is set back to the right. A later brick extension to the east is not of historical interest.