International Community Centre And Attached Balustrade Walls

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.