Listing Text

SOUTHWELL

CHURCH STREET
SK7053
1919-0/11/45 (South side)
09/02/73 Old Grammar School
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
The Old Grammar School (PW Gascoine
and others))

GV II

Former Grammar School, now offices. 1819, with late C19
additions. Brick with dressed stone plinth and hipped and
gabled slate roof. 2 string courses, chamfered eaves, single
gable, ridge and side wall stacks. Windows are glazing bar
sashes of various sizes, with rubbed brick heads. 3 storeys,
3x6 bays. Pedimented north gable, to street, has a central
blank flanked by single windows on each floor, those to the
upper floor being smaller. In a recess to the right, a round
headed doorway with plain fanlight and above it, a single sash
on each floor. To left, a late C19 flat roofed porch with
cornice and ramped parapet, and a 3-light mullioned window. On
its left side, a doorway. Above the porch, a tablet inscribed
"Collegiate Grammar School of Southwell". Hipped end, to
Minster churchyard, has regular fenestration with a central
full-height sash on the ground floor. Interior has a stone
dogleg stair with stick balusters.

Listing NGR: SK7010853883