Nottingham High School

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE 646-1/4/12

ARBORETUM STREET (North West side) Nottingham High School

GV II

Boys' high school. 1866-67. By T Simpson, assisted by Hine & Evans, of Nottingham. Basement excavated 1870 and 1880s. Ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Elizabethan Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, buttresses with pinnacles, coped parapets. Windows are mainly leaded casements with stone mullions and tracery, and label moulds. Single storey and 2 storeys, plus basement; 5:3:5 bays. Central block topped with a tower, with flanking wings. Projecting central block has a Y-plan stairway with central double doors to the basement. Pointed arched double door to ground floor, with traceried spandrels, and niche and pinnacle above. On each side, canted bay windows, 7-lights, rising from the basement. Above them, small windows, 3-lights. Upper stage, set back, has a slightly projecting centre, and 3 windows, 3-lights. Above again, a set back square tower, single stage, with crenellated parapet and tall crenellated corner turret. Projecting window, 3-lights, on each side. Left wing, single storey plus basement, has a slightly projecting central bay with a 5-light window, flanked by two 3-light windows. Basement has cross-mullioned windows, 4 and 3-lights. Right wing, 2 storeys plus basement, has similar fenestration with simpler tracery. INTERIOR has entrance hall with 3 roll moulded pointed arched doors to the main entrance and flanking rooms, the left room with wainscot, moulded cornice and pointed arch to bay window. Cusped arch to corridor to left wing. First floor library in left wing, altered c1986, has a hammer beam roof with wall shafts and angel corbels, and 3 blind pointed arches at the west end. First floor room in right wing, altered c1955, has scissor braced roof with wall shafts and corbels. Traceried window, 5-lights, now blocked, at east end. Similar window at west end altered to form screen and doors. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 239; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 25).

Listing NGR: SK5657340904