Bog Row, girls school

HER Number

17115

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Bog Row, girls school

Place

Hetton-le-Hole

Map Sheet

NZ34NE

Class

Education

Site Type: Broad

School

Site Type: Specific

School

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

School of fawn brick with grey sandstone quoins and dressings, and Welsh slate roods with conical-capped ventilators to the ridge. The central block is of ten bays, the central two set forward as a projection with a pair of round arched windows and a gable over with a tablet inscribed 'Girls School 1894'.

Easting

435060

Northing

547190

Grid Reference

NZ435060547190

Sources

Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas; Ordnance Survey Second Edition, 1896