NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL

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:: NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL, ARBORETUM STREET

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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.