Colston House

21, 23 AND 25A, DERBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1247207
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Colston House
Statutory Address:
21, 23 AND 25A, DERBY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1247207
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Colston House
Statutory Address 1:
21, 23 AND 25A, DERBY ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
COLSTON HOUSE, 1, NORTH CIRCUS STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
21, 23 AND 25A, DERBY ROAD
Statutory Address:
COLSTON HOUSE, 1, NORTH CIRCUS 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 56779 40019

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5640SE DERBY ROAD 646-1/13/170 (South West side) Nos.21, 23 AND 25A

II

Includes: No.1 Colston House NORTH CIRCUS STREET. 3 shops and offices. 1878. By RC Sutton of Nottingham for Dr Claude Taylor. Red brick, with terracotta dressings and hipped slate roof with a corbelled side wall stack. Italianate style. Plinth, modillion eaves cornice. Windows to upper floors have aprons. 2 storeys; 3 x 3 windows. At the corner, an original wooden shopfront, returned on both fronts, with pilasters and dentillated fascia cornice. Renewed double doors under original swan-necked pediment and cartouche. On each side, a plate glass shop window with moulded arched head, elliptical to the left, round to the right. Derby Road front has to left an altered shopfront under a cornice, with plate glass windows. Above, a square brick oriel window, 3-lights, with parapet. On each side, a similar 2-light sash with cornice. Above again, a recessed central bay with C20 glazing. On each side, a segment-headed sash, 2 lights. Right return, to North Circus Street, has on the ground floor a central plain sash, and to right a doorway with sidelights under a common pediment. To its right, a side entry. Above, a central sash flanked by pairs of sashes with cornices, and above again, similar fenestration with segment-headed windows. The second floor may have been used as a photographic studio.

Listing NGR: SK5677940019

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
456514
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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