12, Park Terrace

NZ 26 NE 6/164

WALLSEND PARK TERRACE (south side) Wallsend No. 12

G.V. II

Headmaster's house, now private residence. 1876 by J. Johnstone, Newcastle, for Wallsend Schools Board. Snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof with decorative ridge tiles; flat stone gable coping. L-plan. Scottish baronial style. 2 storeys, 3 x 2 bays. Central c.1980 door under overlight, blind bay above. Paired windows at left under similar pair in hipped half dormer. Eaves corbel table above first and second bays. High crow-stepped gable over projecting third bay which contains one-storey canted bay under paired windows and relieving arch. All windows sashes with glazing bars and sloping sills; bar-stopped chamfers to all openings. Right return to Station Road has one blind bay under corbel table and paired sashes under projecting gable. 2 tall corniced and moulded ashlar chimneys.

Listing NGR: NZ2972366760