WILFORD ENDOWED SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL

WILFORD ENDOWED SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270640
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:: WILFORD ENDOWED SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: WILFORD ENDOWED SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, MAIN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270640
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: WILFORD ENDOWED SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: WILFORD ENDOWED SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, MAIN ROAD

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:: WILFORD ENDOWED SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, MAIN ROAD

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:: SK5663537449

Details

SK53NE 646-1/7/813 13/12/49

NOTTINGHAM MAIN ROAD, Wilford (East side) No.110 Wilford Endowed School and attached boundary wall (Formerly Listed as: MAIN ROAD, Wilford No.110 Wilford School (formerly listed in the Urban District of West Bridgford))

II

Primary school and boundary wall. 1736 and 1868. Founded and endowed as a charity school by Benjamin Carter, rector 1694-1732. Comprises former school house and adjoining classroom block. School house, 1736, altered and refenestrated early C20. Roughcast and colourwashed, with renewed plain tile roof and coped gables with 4 gable stacks. Plinth and first floor band. 2 storeys; 3 bays. Double range plan. Windows are mainly wooden cross casements. South front has 3 windows, and above the centre window, an inscribed slate tablet recording the foundation, signed by W Tilly. Above, 2 gabled through-eaves dormers, each with a window. Rear has a central square porch, 2 storeys, mid C19 with steps to side door, single window, and parapet. On each side, a window on each floor, the upper windows in through-eaves dormers. Classroom block, 1868, is attached at right angles, parallel to the street. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof with tile crest and 4 coped side wall stacks. Tudor Revival style. Plinth and quoins. Single storey plus attics; 3 bays. E-plan. Windows are mainly wooden framed cross casements with stone surrounds and mullions. Central shaped gable with finial and renewed clock. Double window. Side bays have an original window to right, and two C20 windows to left. Above, 2 box dormers. End bays have gables with bargeboards and finials. Right gable has an original window, the left a flat roofed addition. Outside, brick boundary wall, C19, with brick coping and 2 pairs of square gate piers. Gate opposite the centre blocked. (Wilford School through 200 years: Lawson M: Wilford: 1986-).

Listing NGR: SK5663537449

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Lawson, M , Wilford School through 200 Years, (1986)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.