Woodthorpe House Community Centre

SK 54 SE, 646-1/4/397

NOTTINGHAM, MANSFIELD ROAD (North West side), Woodthorpe House Community Centre

(Formerly Listed as: MANSFIELD ROAD Ewing School (formerly Woodthorpe House))

12/07/72

GV

II

House, later school, now community centre. Early C19, with mid C19 additions and alterations. Converted late C20. Stucco with artificial slate roofs. Truncated rear wall stack. Windows are mainly original glazing-bar sashes. Two storeys; three-window range. Garden front has two large bow windows, three lights, with conical roofs and deep bracketed eaves. Larger sashes to ground floor, one altered to a glazed door. In the centre, a renewed door and overlight, and above it, a sash. Street front has irregular fenestration with glazing-bar sashes. Off-centre doorcase with columns and cornice.

INTERIOR has in the hallway the former portico, with two pairs of Doric columns forming arcades, and dentillated cross beam. Under one arcade, two round-arched niches. Stone cantilever winder stair and landing with iron stick balusters and scrolled handrail. Round arches, cornice and skylight to stairwell. Ground floor rooms to garden front have cornices, one enriched, and one ceiling with anthemion border. Carved and fretted wooden pelmets, four original six-panel doors.

Listing NGR: SK5760143539