Wilford Endowed School and Attached Boundary Wall
WILFORD ENDOWED SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457486
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lawson, M, Wilford School through 200 Years, (1986)
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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