Ruddington Free School, Now Occupied By The Old School Kitchens And Hibbs Typewriters

Ruddington Free School, now occupied by The Old School Kitchens and Hibbs Typewriters, is a school building dating from 1875. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. The building has ashlar coped gables and dogtooth eaves, and it is buttressed and set on a plinth with a chamfered ashlar band above.

The structure is single storey and consists of three bays. The right bay slightly projects and is gabled, incorporating a single brick stack and a gabled bellcote with ashlar coping. There is a pair of sash windows with an ashlar sill and lintel, and to the right is a hipped bay that breaks the eaves, which also has a pair of sash windows. Above these windows is a transom of brattishing with ashlar quatrefoils. The far right bay contains a single ashlar window with three pointed arched lights, the central light being taller, each with a similar transom featuring cusped tracery above. This window has a flush ashlar quoin surround, and in the apex, there is a decorative cusped ashlar trefoil. Beneath the bellcote is an ashlar plaque inscribed with "Ruddington Free School originally founded and endowed by James Peacock A.D. 1841. Rebuilt A.D. 1875 in memory of Charles and Ellen Paget who died A.D. 1873."

The west front, facing Asher Lane, has four bays. The left bay slightly projects, is gabled, and has a window similar to that of the gabled bay on the main front, but with different tracery. In the gable apex is a decorative cusped ashlar quatrefoil. To the right is a set of three sash windows with an ashlar sill and lintel, followed by a smaller window similar to that of the gabled bay but lacking the flush ashlar quoin surround and with different tracery, which is gabled over. On the far right is another set of three sash windows with an ashlar sill and lintel.