Nottingham High School
NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL, ARBORETUM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246248
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Nottingham High School
- Statutory Address:
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL, ARBORETUM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246248
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Nottingham High School
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL, ARBORETUM STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL, ARBORETUM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK5657340904
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK54SE
646-1/4/12
ARBORETUM STREET
(North West side)
Nottingham High School
GV
II
Boys' high school. 1866-67. By T Simpson, assisted by Hine &
Evans, of Nottingham. Basement excavated 1870 and 1880s.
Ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Elizabethan
Revival style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, buttresses with pinnacles,
coped parapets. Windows are mainly leaded casements with stone
mullions and tracery, and label moulds. Single storey and 2
storeys, plus basement; 5:3:5 bays. Central block topped with
a tower, with flanking wings.
Projecting central block has a Y-plan stairway with central
double doors to the basement. Pointed arched double door to
ground floor, with traceried spandrels, and niche and pinnacle
above. On each side, canted bay windows, 7-lights, rising from
the basement. Above them, small windows, 3-lights. Upper
stage, set back, has a slightly projecting centre, and 3
windows, 3-lights. Above again, a set back square tower,
single stage, with crenellated parapet and tall crenellated
corner turret. Projecting window, 3-lights, on each side.
Left wing, single storey plus basement, has a slightly
projecting central bay with a 5-light window, flanked by two
3-light windows. Basement has cross-mullioned windows, 4 and
3-lights.
Right wing, 2 storeys plus basement, has similar fenestration
with simpler tracery.
INTERIOR has entrance hall with 3 roll moulded pointed arched
doors to the main entrance and flanking rooms, the left room
with wainscot, moulded cornice and pointed arch to bay window.
Cusped arch to corridor to left wing.
First floor library in left wing, altered c1986, has a hammer
beam roof with wall shafts and angel corbels, and 3 blind
pointed arches at the west end. First floor room in right
wing, altered c1955, has scissor braced roof with wall shafts
and corbels. Traceried window, 5-lights, now blocked, at east
end. Similar window at west end altered to form screen and
doors.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 239; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers
Hine; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 25).
Listing NGR: SK5657340904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454761
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 239
Brand, K, Get To Know Nottingham in Thomas Chambers Hine An Architect of Victorian Nottingham, (), 25
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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