International Community Centre and Attached Balustrade Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Former school, community centre. 4 related planning applications.
International Community Centre and Attached Balustrade Walls
- WRENN ID
- sheer-threshold-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Former school, community centre
- Address
- International Community Centre and Attached Balustrade Walls, Mansfield Road, City of Nottingham
- OS grid reference
- SK 571 405
- Coordinates
- 52.9596, -1.1504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The International Community Centre, formerly the Nottingham Bluecoat School, was built in 1852. It was designed by TC Hine of Nottingham, with sculptures by J Stonehouse of Nottingham, and was altered and converted in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with a rock-faced stone basement, ashlar dressings, and slate roofs with tile crests, in a Tudor Revival style.
The building includes a plinth and coped gables with kneelers. It has mainly original casement windows with stone mullions, transoms and cornices. The building is two storeys high plus a basement and attics, arranged in a five-by-five bay layout. It has an L-shaped plan, with a heavily emphasised rebated corner. The front entrance has a projecting gable to the right, featuring a single cross casement on each floor, with a quatrefoil above. Niches at each angle contain half-size figures of a boy and a girl in 18th-century Bluecoat School dress. To the left is a set-back range of four windows, with a projecting gabled centre and end bays, each containing a single window on each floor. The intermediate bays feature stone doorcases with mullioned overlights and renewed doors, above which are two-light mullioned windows. The right return has a projecting single-bay feature with a shaped gable and a clock. An angle buttress is visible to the right, alongside a niche with a cornice bearing the date and an inscription. A large cross mullion window, 8-lights, is positioned above. A round-arched door with a stepped gable is in the return angle to the left, with the base of a square bell turret above. A buttressed range of four windows flanks the right return, with segment-arched basement openings. The return gable displays a cross mullioned window on each floor.
The interior features a hall with a chamfered cross beam ceiling. Curved balustrade walls, constructed of rock-faced stone with stepped chamfered coping, adjoin the entrance front, flanking a pathway. The Nottingham Bluecoat School was originally based in High Pavement.
Local climate
International Community Centre and Attached Balustrade Walls sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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