Former Clarendon College Berridge Centre

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SK54SE 646-1/4/619

NOTTINGHAM STANLEY ROAD Forest Fields Primary School Former Clarendon College Berridge Centre

(Formerly listed as Clarendon College Berridge Centre, STANLEY STREET)

II Formerly known as: High Pavement School STANLEY STREET. School, now further education centre. Dated 1895. By AN Bromley of Nottingham, for Nottingham School Board, as new premises for High Pavement School.

Red brick, with rock-faced stone basement, ashlar and terracotta dressings. Plain tile roofs, the main roof with a lead covered octagonal turret and spire. Four tall, coped side wall stacks. Renaissance Revival style.

EXTERIOR: ashlar bands, first floor cornice, dentillated main cornice. Front bays divided by buttresses with pinnacles. Windows are mainly glazing bar casements with ashlar cross frames and mullions.Two storeys plus basement and attics; 2:7:2 bays. Main block flanked by set-back side bays, symmetrical front and rear. Main block has seven tall cross casements. Above, three similar windows under coped gables with pediments alternating with four smaller cross casements. Each return has similar fenestration. Side entrance bays, single window, have ogee pyramidal roofs. Ashlar doorcase at basement level with cornice and finials and glazed double doors. Above, a tall mullioned window, three lights, with paneled transom and pediment. Above, a smaller three-light window, and above again, a two-light mullioned window to the attic. Gabled end bays have a three-light window with pilaster mullions, and above, a canted oriel window, three lights. Above again, a three-light window with pilaster mullions. All these windows are sashes. Rear elevation has a recessed centre, six windows, with two gables. On each side, higher wings, three windows, with pedimented through-eaves dormers. These windows have wooden frames, and mainly segmental heads.

INTERIOR: ground floor hall with tile dado, moulded span beams on brackets, and round-arched double doors with voussoirs.

(Get to know Nottingham: Oldfield G: The Lace Market: Nottingham: 27).

Listing NGR: SK5609341803