Former Police Station Adjoining Shire Hall
FORMER POLICE STATION ADJOINING SHIRE HALL, HIGH PAVEMENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247636
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former Police Station Adjoining Shire Hall
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER POLICE STATION ADJOINING SHIRE HALL, HIGH PAVEMENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247636
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former Police Station Adjoining Shire Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER POLICE STATION ADJOINING SHIRE HALL, HIGH PAVEMENT
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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.
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:
- FORMER POLICE STATION ADJOINING SHIRE HALL, HIGH PAVEMENT
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 57562 39612
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5739NE HIGH PAVEMENT 646-1/21/276 (South side) 12/07/72 Former Police Station adjoining Shire Hall
GV II*
Police station, now offices. 1905. Ashlar with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible. Baroque Revival style. Granite plinth, rusticated ground floor, first floor sill band, giant Doric angle pilasters to the upper floors, entablature topped by parapet. 3 storeys; 5 window range of plain sashes. Central round-arched granite doorcase with double doors, flanked by pairs of windows with tall projecting keystones. Above, 5 windows in moulded surrounds, with brackets supporting pediments filled with raised double keystones. Above again, five 16-pane sashes in moulded surrounds with corniced keystones. Angled end bays have a single window on each floor. To left, an elliptical arched carriage opening with voussoirs and cast-iron double gates, and above, a bridge to the adjoining Shire Hall (qv), with sill band and cornice, and a single window with brackets to a segmental cornice filled with a raised double keystone. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: The Shire Hall and old County Gaol, Nottingham: Nottingham: 5).
Listing NGR: SK5756239612
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 457255
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brand, K, Get To Know Nottingham in The Shire Hall An Old County Gaol, (), 5
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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