Claremont School And Attached Boundary Walls

Claremont School, originally Carrington Board School, is a late 19th-century board school, built in 1884 by TC Hine & Son of Nottingham for the Nottingham School Board. It is constructed of red brick with terracotta and ashlar dressings, featuring gabled and hipped plain tile roofs and tall brick stacks. The building is of Domestic Revival style, with rockfaced stone and brick boundary walls.

The school comprises two symmetrical ranges connected by a central entrance bay and campanile chimney. The central entrance features a two-storey projecting porch with a round-arched panelled door under a pediment, an inscribed panel and enriched tympanum above, and a square campanile with enriched string courses, a cornice, and round-arched, arcaded openings to the bell stage. The left range is two storeys with projecting gabled end bays, segment arches to the ground floor windows, and round arches above. It includes tall round-arched windows in pedimented through-eaves dormers. The right range is also two storeys, with segment-arched glazing bar sashes and cross-mullioned sashes above. A single-storey range to the right also features projecting end bays with tall round-arched windows and keystones, and pedimented dormers. The right return has three windows.

The front of the building is defined by a rockfaced stone boundary wall approximately 30 metres long, with chamfered coping. To the right of this wall, two gateways are punctuated by square brick piers, one pair with pyramidal caps and wrought-iron gates. To the left, a similar wall extends approximately 50 metres, with central gate piers and a gateway. Further along, sections of raised brick wall border the playground, returning along Hucknall Road and featuring gabled brick coping, for a total length of around 110 metres. The windows are mainly original cross-framed glazing bar casements.