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

SK 53 SE 5/106

RUDDINGTON THE GREEN (south side) Ruddington Free School, now occupied by The Old School Kitchens and Hibbs Typewriters

G.V. II

School, now offices. 1875. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. Ashlar coped gables. Dogtooth eaves. Buttressd and set on a plinth with chamfered ashlar band over. Single storey,, 3 bays. The right single bay slightly projects and is gabled incorporating to the left and rising from this bay, a single brick stack and a single gabled and ashlar coped bellcote. Single pair of sashes with ashlar sill and lintel, to the right is a single hipped bay which breaks the eaves with single similar pair of sashes, extending over each is a single transom of brattishing with single ashlar quatrefoils over. The single far right bay has a single ashlar window with 3 pointed arched lights, the single central light being taller. Each light with single similar transom with cusped tracery over. This window with flush ashlar quoin surround. In the apex is a single decorative cusped ashlar trefoil. Under the bellcote is an ashlar plaque inscribed "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". Asher Lane/west front of 4 bays. The single left bay slightly projects, is gabled and has a single window, similar to that of the gabled bay of the main front, but with different tracery. In the gable apex is a single decorative cusped ashlar quatrefoil. To the right is a single set of 3 sashes with ashlar sill and lintel. Further right is a single similar smaller window to that of the gabled bay, but lacking the flush ashlar quoin surround, with different tracery, being gabled over. On the far right is a single similar set of 3 sashes with ashlar sill and lintel

Listing NGR: SK5723932845