Ruddington Free School, Now Occupied By the Old School Kitchens and Hibbs Typewriters

RUDDINGTON FREE SCHOOL, NOW OCCUPIED BY THE OLD SCHOOL KITCHENS AND HIBBS TYPEWRITERS, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1249768
Date first listed:
13-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Ruddington Free School, Now Occupied By the Old School Kitchens and Hibbs Typewriters
Statutory Address:
RUDDINGTON FREE SCHOOL, NOW OCCUPIED BY THE OLD SCHOOL KITCHENS AND HIBBS TYPEWRITERS, THE GREEN
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1249768
Date first listed:
13-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Ruddington Free School, Now Occupied By the Old School Kitchens and Hibbs Typewriters
Statutory Address 1:
RUDDINGTON FREE SCHOOL, NOW OCCUPIED BY THE OLD SCHOOL KITCHENS AND HIBBS TYPEWRITERS, THE GREEN

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
RUDDINGTON FREE SCHOOL, NOW OCCUPIED BY THE OLD SCHOOL KITCHENS AND HIBBS TYPEWRITERS, THE GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Nottinghamshire
District:
Rushcliffe (District Authority)
Parish:
Ruddington
National Grid Reference:
SK5723932845

Details

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

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
431160
Legacy System:
LBS

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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