A primary school built in 1957 by Nottinghamshire County Council. The steel-frame construction has some horizontal precast concrete panels, decorative tile-hung panels and vertical timber boarding beneath the classroom windows. The assembly hall has a low pitched roof, whereas the roofs of the classrooms are flat. The assembly hall is fully glazed at the front. The classrooms have deep strip windows and narrow solid panels beneath and above. The assembly hall and the dining room can be transformed into one by opening up a dividing door. Intake Farm School is the first school constructed on the CLASP system. (1)

Intake School, formerly Bancroft Lane School, in Mansfield was built from 1955 to 1957. It was Nottinghamshire County Council's first school where the CLASP system was used. This is a prefabricated system originally designed to tolerate mining subsidence by Donald Gibson for Nottinghamshire County Council. It is a system of pin-jointed and spring-loaded light steel frame. Initially this was clad with timber and tiles to give it a vernacular appearance. This was later given up and the frame-construction was clad with concrete panels. For cost reasons, Gibson organized a group of education authorities who faced similar problems, e. g. the need of the erection of cheaper schools. CLASP therefore stands for Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme. The use of prefabricated modules for building schools derives from the Ministry of Education's 1943 recommendation to use standardised prefabricated components following a spending cut in 1949 along with a shortage of schools after World War Two. (2)

Intake Farm School was designed by Bevis Fuller and Henry Swain. It was the first school to be built in the newly designed CLASP system. Building work began in January 1957 and finished in September 1957. (3)

Listed Buildings Slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<1> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.

<2> Elain Harwood, 2010, England's Schools: History, Architecture and Adaptation, p. 73, 75 (Published document). SNT6460.

<3> Andrew Saint, 1987, Towards A Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England, p. 167, 170 (Published document). SNT6461.