Castle Court and Attached Railings

CASTLE COURT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 59, CASTLE BOULEVARD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1246547
Date first listed:
13-Jul-1995
List Entry Name:
Castle Court and Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
CASTLE COURT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 59, CASTLE BOULEVARD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1246547
Date first listed:
13-Jul-1995
List Entry Name:
Castle Court and Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
CASTLE COURT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 59, CASTLE BOULEVARD

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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:
CASTLE COURT AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 59, CASTLE BOULEVARD

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 56938 39320

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639SE CASTLE BOULEVARD 646-1/22/90 (South side) 13/07/95 No.59 Castle Court and attached railings

GV II

Warehouse, now offices and workshops, and attached railings. 1894. By Watson Fothergill for Simons & Pickard, paper merchants. Restored and converted 1983. Red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped artificial slate roofs. The front, and the attics of the returns, are in red facing brick. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus basement and attics; 11 x 13 bays. 4 ranges enclosing a rectangular courtyard. Front range has a central feature flanked by square tower porches with octagonal spires, and square corner towers with pyramidal roofs. Central cart entrance with steel lintel, and above it, a 5-light cross casement. Porches have rock-faced stone plinths and single windows, slightly varied, on each floor. Left porch has ashlar steps to side door. Side bays, 3 windows, have paired sashes below and cross casements above. Corner towers have segment-arched cart entrances. Attic has continuous fenestration, with groups of 3 round-arched windows. The other ranges, divided by pilasters, have regular fenestration with segment-arched cast-iron casements. Attic storeys have round-arched windows in pairs and triples. Attached to a rebated rear corner, a round chimney stack. Courtyard, now glazed and converted to atrium, has similar fenestration, mainly original. INTERIOR has inserted ceilings and partitioning. Some round cast-iron columns. Outside, attached cast-iron railings. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 11).

Listing NGR: SK5693839320

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Sources

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Brand, K, Get To Know Nottingham in Watson Fothergill Architect, (1987), 11

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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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