Details
MANSFIELD
SK5361 WOODHOUSE ROAD
924-1/5/149 (West side)
Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School
GV II
Girls' school. Dated 1891, with additions 1938. Rock-faced
stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile
roofs. Plinth and sill bands. Windows mainly have glazing bars
and elliptical arches. Double gabled main block, 2 storeys;
6-window range, arranged 3:3.
Three large coped stacks rising from the front wall, plus a
similar side wall stack. To left, a projecting gabled wing
with a central double transom cross casement with label mould.
Below, 3 windows, the central one a casement. Left return has
a large canted oriel window with hipped roof.
To left again, single-storey entrance block with string course
and chamfered coped parapet with ramped flat-topped gable.
Projecting central entrance bay with moulded Tudor-arched
doorway, double door and label mould with stops. On either
side, 2 flat-headed windows. Behind and to left, gabled
assembly hall with a double transom cross casement and a side
wall stack.
Left return has 3 elliptical arched 12-pane sashes to left and
3 similar flat-headed windows to right. To right, hipped
entrance bay, 2 storeys, with 3 small first-floor windows
arranged in a triangle. Below, recessed porch with moulded
elliptical-arched opening and hoodmould, and chamfered dated
lintel on corbels. Extruded corner, to right, with a single
composite sash to each floor on 2 sides.
To right again, former Headmistress's house, with string
course and coped gables with kneelers. 2 storeys plus garrets;
4-window range. To left, main gable with 3 tall windows under
common label mould, and above, smaller single window, also
with label mould. Below, splayed recessed porch with moulded
elliptical arch and cornice, and moulded inner doorway. To
left, 2 windows with composite sashes. To left again, angled
corner with a composite sash to the ground floor and topped
with a large coped stack. To right, a 2-storey square bay
window with hipped roof, set across the corner, with 2 windows
on each floor.
Right return has a gable to left with a small garret window
and rear wall stack. To right, rear wing with gable stack and
3 windows on each floor, the upper ones flat-headed composite
sashes. To right again, a hipped single-storey porch with
flat-headed door flanked by single windows, the right one with
a wooden shutter.
Library, at the rear, has half-hipped roof to left and gable
to right, with a coped stack. To right, 4 double transom cross
casements separated by buttresses. To left, 3 small
flat-headed windows. To right, a small cross gable, and a
hipped extension, with 2 flat-headed cross casements. Above,
to right, a hipped dormer.
INTERIOR: library has arch braced roof with wall shafts on
corbels and panelled ceiling with painted decorations and
skylight. Inner wall and one gable have large allegorical
paintings in the style of Burne-Jones, by Morris & Co. The
ceiling panels and patterned decoration of the opposite gable
may also be by the firm. Main windows have stained-glass
panels, also by Morris & Co.
(School Records: invoices and orders for the wall paintings).
Listing NGR: SK5392861728
