Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SE BROOK STREET
646-1/15/61 (North East side)
28/03/83 Town Mission Ragged School and
attached boundary wall and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
BROOK STREET
The Ragged School)

II

Charity school, and attached boundary wall and railing. Dated
1858, with late C19 additions. Coursed rubble and rock-faced
stone, with red, white and blue brick dressings and
diaper-patterned tile roofs.
Plinth, coped gables. Windows are mainly round-arched, with
wooden mullions and transoms and polychrome brick heads.
Single schoolroom range with rear wings and additions, forming
an H-plan.
Main range, single storey, 4 bays, has 4 large gabled dormers
with round-arched windows. Between the outer windows,
shouldered external brick stacks. Above, 4 gablet ventilators.
In each gable, a large window. At each end, small projections,
single bay, with boarded windows. Left addition is roofless.
To right, a larger projecting addition, with a flat-headed
window.
Right return has, towards the rear, 2 gables, each with a
round-arched window. Between them, a shouldered stack,
corbelled out. The right one has a ribbon inscribed "Town
Mission Ragged School 1858". Left return has a small gabled
projection with 2 windows.
Outside, across the front of the classroom range, attached
boundary and retaining wall, coursed rubble, topped with a
spiked railing. At the right corner, a pair of square ashlar
gate piers with pyramidal caps and renewed wooden gates. Short
length of wall and railing to right return.
Building vacant at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SK5797140037

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538716

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments