Wilford House
WILFORD HOUSE, CLIFTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247201
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wilford House
- Statutory Address:
- WILFORD HOUSE, CLIFTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247201
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wilford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILFORD HOUSE, CLIFTON LANE
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:
- WILFORD HOUSE, CLIFTON LANE
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 56493 36749
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK53NE CLIFTON LANE, Wilford 646-1/7/154 (South side) 12/07/72 Wilford House
GV II
Formerly known as: Wilford Hall CLIFTON LANE. Country house, now offices. 1781. Designed by William Henderson of Loughborough, and built by Samuel Stretton. Additions mid C19 and late C20. Red brick, with ashlar and stucco dressings and hipped slate roofs. 4 renewed external stacks at the corners. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, dentillated eaves cornice, renewed parapet. Windows are glazing bar sashes with brick flat arches. 3 storeys; 5 window range. Square plan. Central doorway with Adam style stucco surround and cornice, fielded 6-panel door with sidelights and fanlight. On each side, 2 windows. Above, 5 windows in diminishing courses. To left, late C20 glazed link and addition, 2 storeys. Right return has projecting end bays with blanks. In the centre, 3 windows on each floor, the ground floor centre window round-arched. Rear has regular fenestration, with 2 larger sashes to left on the ground floor. To right, a recessed bay, then the C19 addition, 2 storeys; 2 window range. INTERIOR; entrance hall and stairwell have corn-husk friezes with medallions, and dentillated cornices. Stairwell has wall panels and oval skylight. Stone cantilever dogleg stair with winders at the foot, wrought-iron balustrade and ramped scrolled handrail. Other rooms have moulded cornices and 6-panel doors. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 272).
Listing NGR: SK5649336749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 272
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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