Gotham Primary School

GOTHAM KEGWORTH ROAD SK 53 SW (north side) 2/23 Gotham Primary School II School. 1879. Red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. Single red brick stack to front right. Ashlar coped gables with 3 remaining ridge finials. Decorative eaves band brocken by the gabled bays. Set on a red and blue brick plinth. Ashlar sill band broken by the doorways. Flush blue brick bands including continuous hood mould band. Single storey, 9 bays. The left 2 bays and the 2 bays third and fourth from the right project and are gabled. The right single bay projects further and is gabled. The single bay fourth from the left is gabled. Having from left to right a single pointed arched 2 ight window with arched glazing bar sashes, plate tracery, hood mould and decorative label stops; a pointed arched doorway with plank door, glazing bar overlight, plate tracery and hood mould with decorative label stops; a single pair of segmental arched casements; a single large tripartite cross window with glazing bars below the transom, the ashlar lintel inscribed "1879", the pointed ashlar arch over decorated with some brick dogtooth and inscribed "Board Schools" with single central shield set into a panel, hood mould and label stops over; a single pair of similar casements' 2 pointed arched glazing bar 2 ight sashes with hood moulds and decorative label stops; a single similar pair of casements and a pointed arched doorway with plank door, plate tracery, hood mould and decorative label stops flanked by single small fixed lights, over, in the apex, is a single small rectangular opening. Above, in the other projecting bays are single roundels with plate tracery, over are 3 rectangular openings with single ashlar bands extending under.

Listing NGR: SK5331030227