Claremont School And Attached Boundary Walls

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE CLAREMONT ROAD 646-1/4/150 (South East side) Claremont School and attached boundary walls

GV II

Formerly known as: Carrington Board School CLAREMONT ROAD. Board school, now junior school. Dated 1884. By TC Hine & Son of Nottingham for the Nottingham School Board. Red brick, with terracotta and ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. Various tall brick stacks. Rockfaced stone and brick boundary walls. Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, patterned string courses, moulded eaves. Windows are mainly original cross-framed glazing bar casements. Single storey and 2 storeys; 10:10 windows. 2 symmetrical ranges connected end to end by an entrance bay and campanile chimney. In the centre, a slightly projecting square porch, 2 storeys, with round-arched panelled door under a pediment. Above, inscribed panel and enriched tympanum. Above, square panelled campanile with enriched string courses and cornice, with round-arched arcaded openings to the bell stage. To left, 2 storey range, with projecting gabled end bays, 2 windows, with segment arches to the ground floor and round arches above. In the centre, 2 windows, flanked by slightly projecting bays with tall round-arched windows in pedimented through-eaves dormers. Beyond, single windows. To left, a range in a similar style, 2 storeys, 3 windows, with segment-arched glazing bar sashes, and above, cross-mullioned sashes. Beyond again, a set back bay. Single storey range, to right, has projecting end bays with 2 tall round-arched windows and keystones. In the centre, 2 windows flanked by pedimented through-eaves dormers with round-arched windows, and beyond, single windows. Right return has 3 windows. Outside, fronting the single storey range, a rock-faced stone boundary wall with chamfered coping, approx 30m long. To right, 2 gateways with square brick piers, one pair with pyramidal caps and wrought-iron gate. To left, fronting the 2 storey range, a similar wall approx 50m long, with a central pair of square panelled gate piers with pyramidal caps. Beyond, a section of the wall raised in brick, with a single pier and gateway. Beyond again, a brick wall bordering the playground and returned along Hucknall Road, with gabled brick coping. Total length approx 110m. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine ; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 29).

Listing NGR: SK5673942173