Former Lead Mining School, Middleton-in-Teesdale
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Former Lead Mining School, Middleton-in-Teesdale
Image: © Les Hull Taken: 4 Apr 2010
Middleton in Teesdale Alston Road NY9425 (South side) 24/89 Community Centre GV II School, now community centre. Dated 1861 in central gable; for London Lead Company. Roughly-dressed coarse sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roof 2 colours of graduated slates, with stone gable copings. One storey, 5 bays, the central projecting under gable; set-back one-storey, one-bay porch extensions at left and right. Pointed-arched boarded doors, with strap hinges, under gabled hood on head-stopped brackets. 4-light window in gabled centre under relieving arch, and 3-light windows in other bays have stone mullions and transoms, alternate-block jambs and drainage holes in sloping sills, all under relieving arches. Diagonal buttresses; steeply-gabled bell cote at left of front gable. Returns have large roundel with geometric tracery, that on right return blocked, flanked by small 2-centred-arched openings. Scrolled wrought-iron finial on bellcote; steeply-pitched roofs have overlapping gable copings. http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D13663 At one time this building was used as a Field Study Centre by Sunderland Education Authority.
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54.625418
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-2.086547