Newcastle, University Quadrangle, School of Bacteriology

HER Number:
9242

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, University Quadrangle, School of Bacteriology

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Education

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Faculty Building

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Former School of Bacteriology, now School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape. 1922-3. Designed by Knowles, Oliver & Leeson for Armstrong College. Red brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Raised coped ashlar gables. Two storey plus attic. Main front has five windows. Deep plinth, projecting ashlar cornice with carved corbels. Central bay projects slightly and is topped with curved gable. Central moulded four-centred arched doorway with double panel doors, with ornate ashlar hood mould with five blind tracery arches. Above a tall 9-light cross casement staircase window in a moulded ashlar surround, and above in gable a small fixed light. Either side two six-light cross mullion windows, with above two taller similar windows with four-centred heads. Plain brick parapet with moulded ashlar coping and two hipped roof dormer window on either side. INTERIOR has reconstituted stone staircase with woven cast iron balustrade and oak handrail. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2470

Northing:
6511

Grid Reference:
NZ24706511

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 1833/14/10103; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 142