Brewhouse Yard Museum and Associated Caves
BREWHOUSE YARD MUSEUM AND ASSOCIATED CAVES, CASTLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246758
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Brewhouse Yard Museum and Associated Caves
- Statutory Address:
- BREWHOUSE YARD MUSEUM AND ASSOCIATED CAVES, CASTLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246758
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Brewhouse Yard Museum and Associated Caves
- Statutory Address 1:
- BREWHOUSE YARD MUSEUM AND ASSOCIATED CAVES, CASTLE ROAD
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:
- BREWHOUSE YARD MUSEUM AND ASSOCIATED CAVES, CASTLE ROAD
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 57010 39431
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5739SW CASTLE ROAD 646-1/23/121 (West side (off)) 11/08/52 Brewhouse Yard Museum and associated caves (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE ROAD Nos 5-8 (consec) Brewhouse Yard)
GV II
Includes: Nos.5-8 BREWHOUSE YARD. 4 houses, now museum, and associated caves. c1675, restored and converted 1977. Red brick, with moulded brick dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile roof. 4 ridge and single gable stacks, rebuilt. Plinth, first and second floor bands, coped gables. Windows are glazing bar casements mostly 2 lights, with brick flat arches and keystones. 2 storeys plus attics; 2:8:2 windows. Symmetrical front, with 3-gabled centre, 8 windows, flanked by gabled wings. Ground floor has slightly irregular fenestration, with 2 renewed doors. Gables have 3 single windows. Right wing has 2 windows, and a 5-light window in the gable. Left wing has similar fenestration, with a door to left, and a 4-light window to the gable. INTERIOR has exposed span beams and joists in most rooms. 2 original dogleg stairs with intersecting strings and turned balusters. At the rear, associated caves cut into the face of the Castle Rock. Various irregular chambers with brick reinforcement and infilling, and a square shaft to the surface. The caves are probably contemporary with the houses. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 236; Reprint from The Mercian Geologist, Vol. 13, Sept. 1992: Waltham AC: The sandstone caves of Nottingham: Nottingham: 1992-: 9).
Listing NGR: SK5701039431
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455779
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 236
The Mercian Geologist in The Mercian Geologist, (1992), 9
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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