Cripps Hall Of Residence, University Of Nottingham

Cripps Hall of Residence is a hall of residence built between 1957 and 1959 for the University of Nottingham, designed by Farquaharson, McMorran & Whitby and endowed by Cyril Thomas Cripps. It is constructed of buff brick with ashlar dressings, featuring hipped green slate roofs with parapets. The building is in a Renaissance Revival style.

The hall comprises three-storey residential blocks arranged around two quadrangles, connected at their corners, along with a single-storey Great Hall range. Most windows are glazing bar sashes with brick flat arches. The High Court, to the north, is three-sided, with the main entrance block on the north side and the warden's house adjoining. To the east are the Great Hall and kitchens, and a residential block to the west.

The entrance range is two storeys high, with a central opening defined by two giant Ionic columns under a continuous roof. This is flanked by residential blocks, featuring four windows and massive slab stacks. The warden’s house has three windows to each side and a pyramidal roof with a central slab stack. The Great Hall has two segment-arched entrances with glazed panels, set in tall segment-arched openings. Between them is a square clock tower with a glazing bar window above, a clock dial to the west, a segment-arched belfry with a slab roof, and a weather vane. Six large glazing bar windows are set in recessed stone architraves to the left. A single-storey corridor and a three-storey block extend to the rear. The southern court has residential blocks on each side, segment-arched passages, and doorways with rusticated surrounds.

Inside, the Great Hall has a panelled entrance lobby and segment-arched double doors leading to a half-panelled dining room with a beamed ceiling. The first-floor corridor features brick segmental arches. Double doors are flanked by three segment-arched windows, leading to a plaster-vaulted hall.