Motor Yard, Bursars Court, Japonica Lodge and Attached Buildings

MOTOR YARD, BURSARS COURT, JAPONICA LODGE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, RIDING SCHOOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1223016
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
Motor Yard, Bursars Court, Japonica Lodge and Attached Buildings
Statutory Address:
MOTOR YARD, BURSARS COURT, JAPONICA LODGE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, RIDING SCHOOL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1223016
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
Motor Yard, Bursars Court, Japonica Lodge and Attached Buildings
Statutory Address 1:
MOTOR YARD, BURSARS COURT, JAPONICA LODGE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, RIDING SCHOOL ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
MOTOR YARD, BURSARS COURT, JAPONICA LODGE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, RIDING SCHOOL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Nottinghamshire
District:
Bassetlaw (District Authority)
Parish:
Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck
National Grid Reference:
SK 55436 74194

Details

SK 54 74 and SK 55 74 HOLBECK RIDING SCHOOL ROAD Welbeck Estate Village (South side)

11/103 Motor Yard, Bursars Court, Japonica Lodge and attached buildings

G.V. II

Stabling, now flats and garages, and lodge. c.1860. Ashlar. Shaped tile roofs. Coped gables with kneelers and mannerist style orb finials. Many stacks. Moulded eaves bands. Set on a plinth. Quadrangle plan with wing to the rear right and lodge projecting from the rear right of this, thus forming a secondary, smaller quadrangle. One and a half storeys. South front, main quadrangle, 6 bays. Central projecting gabled bay with central vermiculated rusticated carriage archway and bracket keystone, flanked by single vermiculated rusticated pilasters supporting an architrave with 2 similar half finials. Either side are 3 large arched doorways with panelled wooden doors, rusticated surrounds and keystones. Above is a single glazing bar sash in raised ashlar surround with keystone and decorative ashlar scroll at each corner, 2 consoles support a slightly projecting hood with decorative strapwork over. Flanked by 2 small glazing bar sashes. The projecting 8 bay wings have similar doorways and fenestration. Completing the quadrangle is a coped wall broken by central pair of piers. The east front of 13 bays has 2 projecting gabled bays each with single glazing bar sash, keystone, flanking marginal sashes and single vermiculated rusticated pilasters with architrave and orbs over. The southern most bay has a further pair of vermiculated rusticated pilasters between sash and marginal sashes. Above are single glazing bar sashes in similar surrounds to that of the centre south. Remaining openings are either glazing bar sashes or recessed panels. Attached via a coped wall with Tudor style arched doorway is a single storey plus attic 3 bay lodge. West front with central gabled bay. Central 2-light casement with Tudor style arched doorway and hood mould to the left, and single similar, smaller casements to the right and above. Casements with drip moulds. Attached to the right via a C20 lean-to is a single, gabled 2 storey bay. Beyond, to the right, is a coped wall, and behind is the secondary courtyard which has several glazing bar sashes, carriage doorways in rusticated surrounds with keystones and doorways with rusticated jambs and keystones. The right wing of the quadrangle, with glazing bar sashes and recessed panels, projects and has a single central projecting gabled bay similar to the centre south front.

Listing NGR: SK5543674194

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
418538
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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