Grade II

Brockington Art and Design Centre, Blaby Road

Former school, now annex of Brockington College. 1860, by Millican and Smith. Probably funded by Charles Brook of Enderby Hall. Granite rubble with limestone quoins and window dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof; coped gables with gablets to kneelers; pale brick chimneys with off-set caps. One storey irregular 5 bay front. Centre bay is gabled and projecting with cross finial on large corbelled stone base, and large 4-light traceried window. Bay to left of centre is also gabled and has central chimney and 2 2-light windows with plate tracery. 2 similar windows to right with smaller gables above. All tracery is cusped. Projecting lobby to left with parallel roof, arched doorway in right end, and C20 single lights and door to front. Right gable end of school has 3-light window with plate tracery.

(N Pevsner and E Williamson, The Buldings of England, Leicestershire and Rutland, 1984, P. 151)