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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 456508
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 231

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