Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740NW MANSFIELD ROAD 646-1/11/394 (West side) International Community Centre and attached balustrade walls

GV II

Formerly known as: Nottingham Bluecoat School MANSFIELD ROAD. Former school, now International Community Centre, and attached balustrade walls. Dated 1852. By TC Hine of Nottingham. Sculptures by J Stonehouse of Nottingham. Altered and converted mid C20. Red brick, with rock-faced stone basement, ashlar dressings and slate roofs with tile crests. Tudor Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, and coped gables with kneelers. Windows are mainly original casements, with stone mullions, transoms and cornices. 2 storeys plus basement and attics; 5 x 5 bays. L-plan, with heavily emphasised rebated corner. Entrance front has to right a projecting gable with a single cross casement on each floor, and a quatrefoil above. Niches at each angle, containing half-size figures of a boy and a girl in C18 Bluecoat School dress. Set back range to left, 4 windows, has projecting gabled centre and end bays with single windows on each floor. Intermediate bays have stone doorcases with mullioned overlights and renewed doors. 2-light mullioned windows above. Right return has to left a projection, single bay, with a shaped gable containing a clock. Angle buttress to right. Niche with cornice, containing date and inscription. Above, a large cross mullion window, 8-lights. In the return angle, to left, a round-arched door with stepped gable. Above, the base of a square bell turret. To right, a buttressed range, 4 windows, with segment-arched basement openings. Return gable has a cross mullioned window on each floor. INTERIOR has a hall with chamfered cross beam ceiling. Outside, adjoining the entrance front, curved balustrade walls flanking a path, rock-faced stone with stepped chamfered coping. The Nottingham Bluecoat School was formerly based in High Pavement. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine ; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 8-9).

Listing NGR: SK5716840583

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