PEVERIL TOWER AND ATTACHED GATEWAY

PEVERIL TOWER AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, 9, CAVENDISH CRESCENT NORTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246775
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: PEVERIL TOWER AND ATTACHED GATEWAY
Statutory Address:: PEVERIL TOWER AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, 9, CAVENDISH CRESCENT NORTH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246775
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: PEVERIL TOWER AND ATTACHED GATEWAY
Statutory Address 1:: PEVERIL TOWER AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, 9, CAVENDISH CRESCENT NORTH

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:: PEVERIL TOWER AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, 9, CAVENDISH CRESCENT NORTH

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 56056 39742

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NW CAVENDISH CRESCENT NORTH 646-1/18/142 (South East side) 14/04/88 No.9 Peveril Tower and attached gateway (Formerly Listed as: CAVENDISH CRESCENT NORTH No.9 Peveril Towers)

II

House and attached gateway. c1875. By TC Hine of Nottingham. Brick, now roughcast and painted, with stucco dressings and hipped slate roofs. 4 side wall and 2 ridge stacks. EXTERIOR: blue brick plinth, ground floor impost band, moulded first floor band and sill band, coved cornice. Windows are mainly original plain sashes. 2 storeys plus attics; 3 x 3 bays. Entrance front has a central projecting porch, 3 bays, with a round-arched doorway and fanlight flanked by Ionic pilasters and topped by an entablature. On each side, a round-arched window with moulded surround. Above, 4 similar windows, flanked by external stacks, with similar windows beyond. Above again, single flat-headed windows in each of the corniced chimney stacks. Garden front has a recessed centre with a round-headed window below and a plain sash above. To right, a wing with a pair of round-headed sashes below and a pair of plain sashes above. To left, a canted bay window, 3 sashes, which rises through 3 floors to form a large octagonal cupola. Ground floor has round-headed sashes. Above, plain sashes, those to the second floor smaller. Cupola has a sham balcony and round-headed openings, 2 blocked, divided by Ionic pilasters. South front has an external stack flanked by single round-headed sashes. Slightly projecting off-centre bay with C20 conservatory on the ground floor and above, a triple sash. Above again, a moulded gable with a smaller tripartite sash. INTERIOR retains many original features. Central staircase hall has inlaid wooden marquetry floor and dado panelling. Good quality single flight return staircase with pierced balustrade, and landing with round-arched arcade with coloured marble columns and moulded capitals. Ground floor rooms are said to contain dado panelling, fireplaces and contemporary plaster ceilings. Bathroom is said to contain early bath with combined shower fitting. Outside, to left, a gateway with square columns, chamfered plinth and cornice caps, topped with ball finials. Renewed wrought-iron gates. Short length of coped wall on each side. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: The Park estate, Nottingham: Nottingham: 1984-: 29).

Listing NGR: SK5605639742

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Legacy System number:: 455813
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brand, Ken, 'Get To Know Nottingham' in The Park Estate, (1984), 29

Legal

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