Building record MNT29139 - Former Warsop Vale School
Summary
Location
| Grid reference | Centred SK 54981 67886 (29m by 37m) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | SK56NW |
| District | Mansfield |
| Civil Parish | Warsop, Mansfield |
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Full Description
The former Warsop Vale Scool building, currently known as Hadida House, was designed to educate the children of the new mining community of Warsop Vale. It was built by the mine owners, the Staveley Coal and Iron Company, and designed by its in-house architect B J Marson. According to the date-stone it was completed in 1901, although it did not open until May 1902. Following the 1902 Education Act, which placed education under the control of the newly formed Local Education Authorities (LEAs), the company retained ownership of the school, appointing four of the six governors. Between 1902 and 1914 attendance fluctuated between 240 and 326 children. Before its closure in 1987, two years before the closure of the pit, it had about 90 pupils.
The school has been used most recently as a retail outlet for shower and mobility equipment.
Hadida House, formerly Warsop Vale School, is built of red brick with slate roofs. In plan it consists of a main front range with a pitched roof, its hipped west end continuing as a catslide roof over the side entrance bay. To the south are two wings, between which is a much smaller wing. All have pitched roofs. There is a large single-storey modern extension to the south, and a smaller single-storey addition to the west, behind the entrance bay.
The main north elevation has six bays divided by brick pilasters. The easternmost bay is blind, the one immediately to the west has a window to the ground floor only, and the entrance bay to the west has a door to the ground floor and windows to mezzanine and first floors. The three remaining bays form a pattern of three first floor windows over three to the ground floor. The central window to the first floor of this group is arched and rises under a small gable with kneelers. Just below the roof ridge is a small slate and wood bellcote with its own slate roof. The two wings to the rear have wide arched first floor windows rising under the gable ends.
The plan form of the ground floor appears to survive largely unchanged, and contains four main spaces, three of which are classrooms, two to the front and one to the rear. That to the rear is partly open to the modern extension, while the east front classroom has been partitioned and the windows partially boarded over. These rooms retain their corner fireplaces and glazed brick dados, and the windows to the front have hopper openings at the bottom. Some of the original panelled and partly glazed doors remain in place. The fourth ground floor space, in the smaller south-east wing, contains a large open stair well with brick arches at ground floor level.
At mezzanine level to the south is a narrow room containing a small cast-iron fireplace with a small side boiler and a built-in cupboard. The first floor is divided by modern partitions, but may originally have contained four classrooms. At this level there are glazed brick dados, cupboards with panelled doors, and corner fireplaces. Some of the windows have hopper openings at the bottom. The classroom in the larger south-west wing features exposed roof trusses.
The former Warsop Vale Scool building, currently known as Hadida House, was designed to educate the children of the new mining community of Warsop Vale. It was built by the mine owners, the Staveley Coal and Iron Company, and designed by its in-house architect B J Marson. According to the date-stone it was completed in 1901, although it did not open until May 1902. Following the 1902 Education Act, which placed education under the control of the newly formed Local Education Authorities (LEAs), the company retained ownership of the school, appointing four of the six governors. Between 1902 and 1914 attendance fluctuated between 240 and 326 children. Before its closure in 1987, two years before the closure of the pit, it had about 90 pupils.
The school has been used most recently as a retail outlet for shower and mobility equipment.
Hadida House, formerly Warsop Vale School, an infant and mixed junior school built in 1901 by the Staveley Coal and Iron Company, is not recommended for designation for the following principal reasons:
* Architecture: Its design is functional but ungainly, and does not compare well with listed examples of the same period.
* Innovation: Although unusual, its overall design and plan form are not innovative.
* Intactness: It retains a good deal of its internal detail, but this is standard for the period, and is not of special interest. Additions to the rear have reduced its interest. (1)
Demolished around 2014.
Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.
<1> Trish Roberts, 2010, English Heritage Listing File - Hadida House (Unpublished document). SNT6404.
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Record last edited
Sep 30 2026 1:40PM