Newcastle House and Attached Boundary Wall
NEWCASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, CASTLE BOULEVARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246564
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Newcastle House and Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NEWCASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, CASTLE BOULEVARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246564
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Newcastle House and Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWCASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, CASTLE BOULEVARD
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:
- NEWCASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, 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 57022 39331
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5739SW CASTLE BOULEVARD 646-1/23/92 (South side) 01/11/85 Newcastle House and attached boundary wall
GV II
Formerly known as: Vyella House CASTLE BOULEVARD. Factory and offices, now offices. 1931-33. By FA Broadhead for William Hollins & Co, manufacturers of Vyella fabric. Structural engineering by the Indented Bar and Concrete Engineering Co. Ltd., of Westminster. Clock added c1960. Converted and altered, with renewed cladding, c1985. Rectangular plan on a 16ft x 20ft grid. Art Deco style. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys plus basement. Reinforced concrete structure with steel frame curtain walling, reconstituted stone cladding, and flat roof behind parapet. Concrete floor and roof slabs carried on round mushroom columns. The cantilevered outer slabs support continuous curtain walling on continuous concrete spandrels. Entrance front has a central feature of 10 narrow bays defined by slender vertical stone fins rising from the ground floor to the top of the second floor. In the centre, a massive stone frame, 2 storeys, enclosing the main doorway. Moulded doorcase and cornice, with panelled folding doors and surround. Narrow side lights, and above the door, 4 narrow lights with window guards. Above again, a square bracket clock. Outside, double lateral steps to the door landing, flanked by basement entrances and linked to the boundary wall. This extends across the front, approx 60m, and has a flat coping. INTERIOR has mainly original boardroom with full height veneered wooden panelling, coved floor and ceiling, and wood-cased mushroom columns. Veneered panelled doors and etched glass sliding windows, with Vyella trademarks. Adjoining meeting room has a simpler decorative scheme with similar windows. Concrete winder stairs with chromed tube handrail. A notable early use of concrete and mushroom columns in factory building. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 247).
Listing NGR: SK5702239331
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454896
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 247
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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