Description

MANSFIELD

SK5361 WOODHOUSE ROAD 924-1/5/149 (West side) Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School

GV II

Girls' school. Dated 1891, with additions 1938. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. Plinth and sill bands. Windows mainly have glazing bars and elliptical arches. Double gabled main block, 2 storeys; 6-window range, arranged 3:3. Three large coped stacks rising from the front wall, plus a similar side wall stack. To left, a projecting gabled wing with a central double transom cross casement with label mould. Below, 3 windows, the central one a casement. Left return has a large canted oriel window with hipped roof. To left again, single-storey entrance block with string course and chamfered coped parapet with ramped flat-topped gable. Projecting central entrance bay with moulded Tudor-arched doorway, double door and label mould with stops. On either side, 2 flat-headed windows. Behind and to left, gabled assembly hall with a double transom cross casement and a side wall stack. Left return has 3 elliptical arched 12-pane sashes to left and 3 similar flat-headed windows to right. To right, hipped entrance bay, 2 storeys, with 3 small first-floor windows arranged in a triangle. Below, recessed porch with moulded elliptical-arched opening and hoodmould, and chamfered dated lintel on corbels. Extruded corner, to right, with a single composite sash to each floor on 2 sides. To right again, former Headmistress's house, with string course and coped gables with kneelers. 2 storeys plus garrets; 4-window range. To left, main gable with 3 tall windows under common label mould, and above, smaller single window, also with label mould. Below, splayed recessed porch with moulded elliptical arch and cornice, and moulded inner doorway. To left, 2 windows with composite sashes. To left again, angled corner with a composite sash to the ground floor and topped with a large coped stack. To right, a 2-storey square bay window with hipped roof, set across the corner, with 2 windows on each floor. Right return has a gable to left with a small garret window and rear wall stack. To right, rear wing with gable stack and 3 windows on each floor, the upper ones flat-headed composite sashes. To right again, a hipped single-storey porch with flat-headed door flanked by single windows, the right one with a wooden shutter. Library, at the rear, has half-hipped roof to left and gable to right, with a coped stack. To right, 4 double transom cross casements separated by buttresses. To left, 3 small flat-headed windows. To right, a small cross gable, and a hipped extension, with 2 flat-headed cross casements. Above, to right, a hipped dormer. INTERIOR: library has arch braced roof with wall shafts on corbels and panelled ceiling with painted decorations and skylight. Inner wall and one gable have large allegorical paintings in the style of Burne-Jones, by Morris & Co. The ceiling panels and patterned decoration of the opposite gable may also be by the firm. Main windows have stained-glass panels, also by Morris & Co. (School Records: invoices and orders for the wall paintings).

Listing NGR: SK5392861728

External Links

• Wikidata Q26510631

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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