Nottinghamshire County Council Social Services Office
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICE, BALDERTON GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196072
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Nottinghamshire County Council Social Services Office
- Statutory Address:
- NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICE, BALDERTON GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196072
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Nottinghamshire County Council Social Services Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICE, BALDERTON GATE
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:
- NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICE, BALDERTON GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newark
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 80022 53692
Details
NEWARK ON TRENT
SK8053NW BALDERTON GATE 619-1/9/51 (South West side) 29/09/50 Notts County Council Social Services Office (Formerly Listed as: NEWARK Council Offices)
GV II
House, now Social Services offices. Mid C18, with late C19 and mid C20 additions in matching style. Built for Dr Bernard Wilson, vicar of Newark. Brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roof. Chamfered quoins, first and second floor bands, coped parapet, 3 ridge and single side wall stacks. Square 5 bay main block, 3 storeys, with 2 bay wings, 2 storeys. Windows are glazing bar sashes of various shapes. 5 sashes with keystone lintels and above, 5 smaller sashes with rubbed brick heads. Parapet has 5 blank panels. Central coped square porch with projecting doorway, double door and overlight, flanked by single sashes. Each wing has 2 sashes on each floor. Rear elevation has similar fenestration to the front, with projecting 3 storey wings. Each wing has 2 sashes, and below, a canted bay window. Between the wings, a single storey mid C20 range with 5 sashes. North west side has to left 5 sashes with keystones and above, a sash and 4 blanks. Moulded doorcase with hood on brackets and fielded 6-panel door with overlight, flanked by a sash to left and 2 to right. To the right, a 2 storey wing, 4 bays. South east side has 7 sashes and below, 2 C20 doors flanked to left by 3 sashes and to right by 2. Interior has 2 C18 stairs, dogleg and open well, with vase and stem balusters and square newels. North west front room has panelled dado and dentillated cornice. Ionic pilasterd chimneypiece with entablature and fielded overmantel panel, containing mid C19 marble fireplace with scroll brackets to shaped mantelshelf. On either side, an elliptical arched recess. Diagonally opposite room has moulded doorcase, cornice and ceiling boss. 9 C18 fielded panelled doors, 2 and 6 panels. (Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 195).
Listing NGR: SK8002253692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384898
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 195
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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