The Dower House and Garden Wall
THE DOWER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046011
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House and Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 2006-05-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/12492/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046011
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House and Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOWER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL, CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Carlton-on-Trent
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 79984 64053
Details
SK 76 SE CARLTON ON TRENT CHURCH STREET (east side) 4/14 The Dower House and garden wall
G.V. II
House. C19, incorporating a C18 house. Brick with hipped and gabled slate and pantile roofs. Ashlar dressings, plinth, first floor band, eaves band, bracketed cornice, balustrade. 5 roof and 2 gable stacks. Windows are mostly plain and margin light sashes. 3 storeys, 3 bays, square plan with wings to west and north. Main south front has moulded and panelled ashlar doorcase with shoulders and shafts, and large pierced brackets to hood, containing panelled door with overlight. Flanked by single square bay windows with shafts, cornices and balustrades, each with 3 sashes. Above, 3 sashes, and above again, 3 smaller sashes, all with moulded architraves. 2 storey, 2 bay service wing to east, has cornice, parapet, and coped gable. To south, off-centre door flanked to left by 2 casements, all with segmental heads, and to right, garage door. Above, 2 sashes. To right again, single bay brick outhouse with pantile roof and single gable stack. North front has to left C19 rear wing with 2 glazing bar sashes with segmental heads, on each floor. To right, C19 lean-to with slate roof and cogged eaves, with, to left, a glazing bar sash and to right, panelled doorcase with hood. To right again, gabled north wing, refronted C18, with first floor and eaves band. North gable has pilastered round headed opening with moulded soffit and paterae, framing a French window with flanking lights like a Venetian window. Above, a plain sash with segmental head. East front has left a sash with segmental head and Gothick tracery, and above, a sash with segmental head. Interior has living room with moulded cornice and coffered painted ceiling. Other principal rooms have moulded friezes and cornices and coffered ceilings, and moulded and reeded doorcases with friezes and cornices, all with similar patterns to those at Carlton Hall. 4 large C19 marble and stone fireplaces, one with flanking panelled fitted cupboards. Dog-leg stair with landing square and turned newels, stick balusters, ramped and scrolled handrail. Several C18 panelled and plank doors. Adjoining brick boundary wall has to south pierced ashlar balustrade and coping, 3 panelled ashlar piers with plinths, cornices and pyramidal caps, and pair of ornate cast iron gates. To north, higher wall with ashlar coping and 2 doors with segmental heads.
Listing NGR: SK7998464053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 242717
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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