School.1907-9 by J. Morson. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings;
diagonal tiles with later felt covering. Arts and Crafts Baroque style.
North front: 2 storeys, the lower being a blank high basement. 8 bays, symmetrical
2 high central bays have 4 linked, coped round gables above 4 large hall
windows flanked by smaller windows; main windows have very tall triple keystones
and cut voussoirs rising to copings. Bays 2, 3, 6 and 7 have 3 grouped windows
each, the central taller and similar to windows of central bays, in raised
coped gables breaking the eaves; bays one and 8 contain 3 small cloakroom
windows. Ornamental rain water heads between windows of centre section
and between bays one and 2, and 7 and 8. Long tapered buttress bay divisions
die to the wall plane at floor level. Single-storey south front has eaves
interrupted by 6 gables, the 2 centre ones higher, with similar treatment;
and small projecting canted-bay end windows, Pupils' entrances set back at sides.
Chamfered coping to wall enclosing area to north. LISTED GRADE 2

Wall, balustrade, piers and steps to terrace of Axwell Park. Early C19,
Retaining wall to terrace and central steps: graduated courses of
rusticated sandstone with moulded ashlar coping; 6 piers to each side of
terrace rest on retaining wall pilasters and are linked by low curved
stone coping; similar piers and balustrade to wall in front of steps.
Piers in front of steps have tall finials of Clavering arms and lions.
Terrace wall piers bear wide classical urns. Some urns missing. LISTED GRADE 2

Co-operative Society H.Q., now shops and offices. 1901 to 1903 by Liddle
and Brown of Newcastle for Birtley Co-operative Society. Brick with ashlar
dressings; roof Welsh slate with stone gable copings; lead-covered ogee
roofs to towers. L-shaped plan. 2 storeys, 22 windows and 8 in left return.
Cornice to ground floor shops defined by rusticated pilasters; later boards
cover original fascia. First floor; 8 central bays, defined by Ionic pilasters,
have sill and impost bands and keystoned arches to 4 pairs of round-headed
windows with glazing bars; flanking 3-storey one-bay towers have large
round stone canopy on brackets to chamfered and rusticated office entrance;
first floor sash in architrave with projecting sill and second floor keystoned
ox-eye window under string and eaves cornice. 6 and 6 outer bays have lugged
architraves and projecting sills to double sashes, the inner 3 under gables;
eaves cornice. Peaks of gables to street and on returns contain 3 small windows
in architraves with conjoined sill between ball-finialled shafts on foliage-
decorated brackets; similar shafts to foot stones; shell-ornamented segmental
pediment at apex on brick panel with blank shield; consoles to pediment
and to gable coping. Roof has balustrade over 8 central bays. Source:
Daily Leader 21st August, 1901. LISTED GRADE 2

House. Circa 1860. Tooled snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, quoins and
plinth; roof Welsh slate with bands of fishscale pattern. One storey and
dormers; 5 bays. Central half-glazed door, in stop-chamfered alternate-block
jambs and high lintel, in porch with bargeboards and finial. Similar surrounds
and bracketed stone sills to sash windows with glazing bars; bargeboards
and shafts to dormers in bays 2 and 4. Left and right returns have window in
bargeboarded gable peak. 3 transverse ridge chimneys of yellow brick with
stone cornices and C19 yellow chimney pots. Historical note: built as
schoolmaster's house for National School. LISTED GRADE 2

Statue. 1874 by G. Burn of Newcastle. White marble figure in military uniform
on corniced sandstone pedestal on plinth, chamfered base and 3 steps. Pink
granite panels set on 4 sides, inscription on south panel: ERECTED TO THE
MEMORY OF EDWARD MOSELEY PERKINS OF BIRTLEY HALL LT. COL. 1ST A.D. BATT.
D.R.V. 1874. Source Newcastle Daily Chronicle 23 June 1874. LISTED GRADE 2

Well. Early C19. Low and flat-coped octagonal wall of ashlar to well
in centre of stable yard. LISTED GRADE 2

Carriage entrance and flanking walls. 1826.Sandstone; castellated style.
High moulded Tudor arch, flanked by square turrets, with patterned spandrels.
Tooled ogee plinth similar to that of lodge; crenellated parapet. Coped
walls step down from turrets and form canted entrance. LISTED GRADE 2

House. Dated 1826. Sandstone ashlar; roof concealed behind battlemented
parapet. Castellated style. One storey, 3 bays, with central canted bay
containing door of 3-over-3 vertical panels with shaped fanlight in
pointed-arched surround. Flanking 2-light stone pointed-arched windows
under label moulds. Left return has battlemented and pedimented parapet
containing Ravensworth Arms and date 1826 over 4-light canted bay. Tooled
cyma moulding to plinth. Roof has 2 octagonal stone corniced chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2

House and shop, now post office. Mid C19. Coursed squared sandstone with
plinth and quoins, roof Welsh slate with flat stone gable coping; rear
staircase off-shot of brick with Welsh slate catslide roof. 2 storeys,
3 windows. 4-light wooden arcaded shop window left has acanthus capitals
to pilasters,elliptical heads, under leaf-decorated brackets to fascia.
Central 4-panelled door, under oblong fanlight in plain surround, has
moulded canopy. All windows inserted casements in pecked stone surrounds;
sill band at first floor. Roof has eaves band, stone gutter band; one right
end brick chimney. LISTED GRADE 2

3 section boundary markers of graveyard. Early C19. Sandstone blocks,
some partly obscured, up to 40cm high and 20 cm wide. Chamfered east
faces bear inscribed '8', '6' and '3' on stones 19 and 13 metres south,
and 2 metres north of line east from church. LISTED GRADE 2