Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE STANLEY STREET
646-1/4/619 (East side)
Clarendon College Berridge Centre

II

Formerly known as: High Pavement School STANLEY STREET.
School, now further education centre. Dated 1895. By AN
Bromley of Nottingham, for Nottingham School Board, as new
premises for High Pavement School. Red brick, with rock-faced
stone basement, ashlar and terracotta dressings. Plain tile
roofs, the main roof with a lead covered octagonal turret and
spire. 4 tall, coped side wall stacks. Renaissance Revival
style.
EXTERIOR: ashlar bands, first floor cornice, dentillated main
cornice. Front bays divided by buttresses with pinnacles.
Windows are mainly glazing bar casements with ashlar cross
frames and mullions. 2 storeys plus basement and attics; 2:7:2
bays. Main block flanked by set-back side bays, symmetrical
front and rear.
Main block has 7 tall cross casements. Above, 3 similar
windows under coped gables with pediments alternating with 4
smaller cross casements. Each return has similar fenestration.
Side entrance bays, single window, have ogee pyramidal roofs.
Ashlar doorcase at basement level with cornice and finials and
glazed double doors. Above, a tall mullioned window, 3 lights,
with paneled transom and pediment. Above, a smaller 3-light
window, and above again, a 2-light mullioned window to the
attic. Gabled end bays have a 3-light window with pilaster
mullions, and above, a canted oriel window, 3 lights. Above
again, a 3-light window with pilaster mullions. All these
windows are sashes.
Rear elevation has a recessed centre, 6 windows, with 2
gables. On each side, higher wings, 3 windows, with pedimented
through-eaves dormers. These windows have wooden frames, and
mainly segmental heads.
INTERIOR: ground floor hall with tile dado, moulded span beams
on brackets, and round-arched double doors with voussoirs.
(Get to know Nottingham: Oldfield G: The Lace Market:
Nottingham: 27).

Listing NGR: SK5605841773

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560487

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