Building record 7198/12/1 - Secondary Modern School for Girls, Rockingham Road

A school built in 1893 to the designs of JA Gotch from red brick with stone dressings under hipped and gabled machine tiled roofs. The building is mainly one-storey except the centre block which is two-storeys with a campanile tower.

{2} 1893 in original variant of Carolean style by J A Gotch. Symmetrical front. Red brick with stone dressings, hipped and gabled machine tiled roofs. 1 storey; 2 storey centre has campanile tower with arched panels to top stage under tall roof with segmental pediment to front. Recessed centre, gables to centres of wings. 4:5:4 windows, casements and sashes under flat and segmental arches with keystones. Central doorway has segmental pediment on long carved consoles. North elevation projecting centre, 5:12:7 windows.

{4} Erected 1893-4. Designed by J.A. Gotch in a distinctive red brick and terracotta.There is a central tower to the building. The building is still in existence today, but in now boarded up and out of use. Film 10, photo 20, Film 14, photo 2-4.
Kettering School Board wanted architect designed schools so that they would not look like Board Schools. They wanted the building to be distinguished not merely utilitarian.

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 2/98 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H15 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

<3> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, p.10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN46018.

<4> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Kettering (Industrial), (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN100283.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Kettering (Photographs). SNN112821.

<6> Historic England, GIRLS SCHOOL, ROCKINGHAM ROAD, KETTERING, BF104941 (Archive). SNN114946.

Record last edited

Dec 5 2023 2:24PM