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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560647

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