Windles Square
Windles Square, 1-8, Main Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235886
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Windles Square
- Statutory Address:
- Windles Square, 1-8, Main Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235886
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Windles Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- Windles Square, 1-8, Main 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:
- Windles Square, 1-8, Main Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Gedling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Calverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK6205349119
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 October 2023 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SK 64 NW
5/27
CALVERTON
MAIN STREET (north side)
Windles Square
Nos.1-8 inclusive
(Formerly listed as Nos 1 to 11)
13.10.66
II
Eleven knitters' cottages, now eight houses. 1834. Restored and remodelled 1972. Brick, partly rendered, with pantile roofs. Corbelled eaves, ten ridge and two gable stacks. Two storeys, ten bays wide by ten bays deep. L-plan. Windows are casements, 1972, mostly with segmental heads, some being large knitters' windows. West side has to left, casement and doorway with segmental head. To its right, a knitter's window and to right again, door and two small lights. Beyond, two casements flanked by single doors. Beyond again, door flanked to left by two small lights and to right by two casements. To right again, a blocked opening. Above, eleven casements. North side has three lean-to additions, 1972, and regular fenestration with five doors and six casements. Above, eleven casements. Rear elevations have similar regular fenestration with ground floor openings with segmental heads.
This building is an early group of knitters' cottages with ground floor workrooms.
Listing NGR: SK6205349119
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425256
- 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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