LENTON HOUSE

LENTON HOUSE, BEESTON LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246254
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:: LENTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LENTON HOUSE, BEESTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246254
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: LENTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LENTON HOUSE, BEESTON LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: LENTON HOUSE, BEESTON LANE

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

District:: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 53831 38115

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK53NW BEESTON LANE 646-1/6/27 (East side (off)) 12/07/72 Lenton House (Formerly Listed as: BEESTON LANE Lenton House, University of Nottingham)

II

House, now company guest house, attached outbuildings and screen wall. 1800, with additions 1816 and 1890. Stucco, with Westmorland slate hipped roofs and various rendered coped stacks. Plinth, moulded wooden eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, plus basement to addition. 3/3 bays. L-plan. Windows are mainly original glazing bar sashes. Those to south and west fronts mostly have shutters. South front has to right a canted bay window, 2 storeys, 3 sashes. To left, a blank flanked by single windows, and above, 2 windows. West front has a central bow window, 2 storeys, 3 sashes, flanked by single windows. To left, a garden shelter with 2 pairs of columns. Entrance front, in courtyard to north, has a central square porch, 2 storey, with cornice and parapet. Recessed Doric portico with panelled door in reeded surround. Above, a round-arched tripartite stair window. Single sash to right, pairs of smaller sashes on 3 floors to left. Courtyard has a screen wall to west, with central gateway. Addition, 1816, to east of the main block, has rendered coped ridge and side wall stacks. Projecting basement with 4 small windows, under a balustrade. Above, 4 ground floor windows, and 3 above, unequally spaced. All these windows have segmental heads. At the rear, a low service range flanking the courtyard. Beyond, service buildings dated 1890, painted brick. 3 ranges, single storey and 2 storeys. INTERIOR has a wooden dogleg staircase with stick balusters and ramped handrail. Ground floor rooms to south front have cornices and 6-panel doors, Classical inlaid marble fireplace, and a similar more elaborate fireplace with a figure panel, flanked by doors. Corresponding first floor rooms and landing have plaster wall panels, cornices, and 2 fireplaces. One room with a coved ceiling. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 259).

Listing NGR: SK5383138115

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Legacy System number:: 454777
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 259

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.