Nottingham Womens' Centre and Chaucer Court Workshops
NOTTINGHAM WOMENS' CENTRE AND CHAUCER COURT WORKSHOPS, 30, CHAUCER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247109
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Nottingham Womens' Centre and Chaucer Court Workshops
- Statutory Address:
- NOTTINGHAM WOMENS' CENTRE AND CHAUCER COURT WORKSHOPS, 30, CHAUCER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247109
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Nottingham Womens' Centre and Chaucer Court Workshops
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOTTINGHAM WOMENS' CENTRE AND CHAUCER COURT WORKSHOPS, 30, CHAUCER STREET
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:
- NOTTINGHAM WOMENS' CENTRE AND CHAUCER COURT WORKSHOPS, 30, CHAUCER STREET
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 56768 40314
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5640SE CHAUCER STREET 646-1/13/145 (North side) No.30 Nottingham Womens' Centre and Chaucer Court Workshops
GV II
Workshops, formerly part of the Royal Midland Institute for the Blind, now Womens' Centre. c1890, with addition c1910 by AN Bromley of Nottingham. Red brick, with ashlar and terracotta dressings and slate roofs. Coped gable and 2 coped ridge stacks. 2 storeys plus basement and attics; 7:4 windows. Windows are mainly casements with stone mullions and transoms. Main block, to left, Jacobean Revival style, has rock-faced stone basement, first floor band and eaves cornice. To left, a square tower porch, 3 stages, with a pyramidal spire. Round-arched entrance with double doors, and above. a canted oriel window, 4 lights. Above again, 2 round-arched blind openings divided by a pilaster. To right, 6 windows on each floor. Segment-arched basement openings, and 2 gabled dormers with finials. Addition, to right, in harmonising style and materials. To left, a slightly projecting entrance bay with coped gable and finial. Panelled double door with overlight and sidelights, in ashlar surround with pediment. Above, a 4-light window with stained glass, and over it, a smaller 4-light window. In the gable, a 3-light window. To right, 2 windows to ground floor and basement, then a round-arched cart entrance, 2 storeys, with voussoirs. Above, 3 windows and above them, 3 wooden gabled dormers.
Listing NGR: SK5676840314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455816
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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