Old Grammar School

MANSFIELD

SK5460 CHURCH SIDE 924-1/8/31 (North East side) Old Grammar School

GV II

Former grammar school, now parish hall. Founded 1551, rebuilt 1714-19, restored and extended 1851, further extensions late C19. Coursed rubble, coursed squared stone and ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Main block, facing churchyard, has plinth, moulded eaves, and 2 coped rear corner stacks. 2 storeys; 6-window range of reglazed 2-light casements with stone flush mullions. Below, off-centre porch with steep pitched coped gable and round-arched doorway with keystone and imposts. Above the door, a panel with Latin inscription. To left, 3 reglazed 2-light casements with stone flush mullions, and to right, 2 similar windows. Above, between floors, 2 small square casements with glazing bars. In each gable, a large segment-headed 3-light transomed casement on each floor. Adjoining the right gable, a hipped 2-storey porch with a doorway with stone lintel. Its right return has a 3-light transomed casement to the first floor. To its right, a lower 2-storey flat-roofed addition with a 2-light casement to the ground floor. Its right return has a 2-light casement, and below, a door. 2-storey rear wing has side wall stack and 2 wooden-framed cross casements to the first floor. Late C19 schoolroom addition, to right, has contrasting first-floor band and coped gables, one with a gabled single bellcote, the other with a finial. Slate roof with central hipped blind dormer and 2 gabled ventilators. 2 storeys; 3-window range of shouldered 3-light lancets with stone mullions, and below, three 3-light stone mullioned cross casements. Each gable has a segmental pointed 4-light transomed window with hoodmould, and above it, a pointed-arched louvred opening. Below, a 4-light stone-mullioned cross casement. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 170).

Listing NGR: SK5408860966