The former Bramcote Tennis Pavilion

This is a sports pavilion, dating from 1885, designed by John Hall for the North of England Lawn Tennis Club. It is built in an Arts and Crafts Tudor Revival style.

The pavilion is constructed of rendered brick with half-timbering to the front elevations, and red brick in English Garden Wall Bond to the rear. The roof is covered in small, plain red clay tiles with mitred hips and terracotta cresting.

The building’s plan features a central square hall which is open as a veranda to the south. To the east is a changing room for gentlemen, and to the west a bow-fronted changing room for ladies. Behind these are a kitchen and a larger club room or office. Toilets are situated at the rear of both changing rooms. An attached outbuilding extends to the north-east.

The pavilion is a single-storey building with a partial attic. Despite its small size, it possesses a complex, asymmetric form, meaning each elevation is different. The main roof ridge runs east-west, forming hips with the roofs of the dressing rooms, which project southwards. The roof over the ladies' changing room creates an apse to the south, while the roof over the gentlemen’s changing room is a broader gable with an attic window, projecting southwards to extend the central veranda eastwards. A dormer window breaks the east-west ridge on the east slope of the gentlemen’s changing room. A lower, hipped roof covers the kitchen and office, with a tall brick chimney rising from its west side. To the east is a lean-to roof over the attached outbuilding, with a lower-pitched catslide slope falling away from the main roof. The various roof hips are finished with mitred tiles; valleys are also tiled. The ridges are terracotta, with perforated cresting. The chimney is brick-built with decorative cornices and projecting bands.

The changing rooms are half-timbered, standing upon a brick plinth. The timbering is close studded, incorporating a high-set mid-rail and twinned, straight down-braces. The panels are rendered over brickwork, and the windows have mullioned frames and leaded lights. The posts at the front of the veranda have high-set curved braces. One post has been omitted from the central veranda to create a doorway leading to the pavilion, accessed by a flight of external steps. The rear of the building is simpler, being brick-built with cambered brick arched openings, windows with projecting sills and plate glass sashes.

The interior of the pavilion was not inspected, but reports suggest it remains largely unchanged.