King's Court
77 TO 87, CLIFF ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247204
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- King's Court
- Statutory Address:
- 77 TO 87, CLIFF ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247204
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- King's Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- 77 TO 87, CLIFF ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- KING'S COURT, 2A AND 4 TO 14, COMMERCE SQUARE
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:
- 77 TO 87, CLIFF ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S COURT, 2A AND 4 TO 14, COMMERCE SQUARE
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 57696 39588
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5739NE COMMERCE SQUARE 646-1/21/164 (South side) 12/07/72 Nos.2A AND 4-14 (Even) King's Court (Formerly Listed as: COMMERCE SQUARE Nos.2-12 (Even))
GV II
Includes: Nos.77-87 CLIFF ROAD. Offices and warehouses, now flats and offices. Late C18 and early and mid C19. Converted, restored, and attic storey added, 1990. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and artificial slate roofs. Plinth, moulded cornice, brick parapet. The buildings rise from Cliff Road, backing onto a sandstone cliff containing caves. EXTERIOR: north front, to Commerce Square, 3 storeys; 14 window range, arranged 7:4:3. Windows are renewed 12-pane glazing bar sashes with brick flat arches. Doorways have brick round arches with replica 4-panel double doors and fanlights. Recessed centre, 4 windows, has to right a doorway. West block, 3 windows, has a single bay left return with a doorway. East block, 7 windows, has 2 doorways. Rear elevation, to Cliff Road, 3 builds. 8 storeys; 14 window range. Rendered basement with 8 C20 openings, fourth floor sill band and moulded cornice. Upper floors have regular fenestration arranged 3:4:4:1:2. To right, beyond a glazed-in space, a slightly recessed block in the same style, 5 storeys; 4 x 4 windows. These blocks have a set back attic storey, 1990. To left, a set back block rising from the cliff, 5 storeys; 5 window range. Sill bands on the lower floors, eaves cornice and parapet. The upper part of this block forms the irregular west side of Commerce Square. INTERIOR: remodelled, has in the upper part of the east block a mid C19 stone cantilever winder stair with cast-iron balustrade. Caves at various levels are exposed in the glazed-in space between the blocks fronting Cliff Road. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 231).
Listing NGR: SK5769639588
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456508
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 231
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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