ELITE BUILDING

ELITE BUILDING, 25, 27, 31 AND 33, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1254539
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:: ELITE BUILDING
Statutory Address:: ELITE BUILDING, 25, 27, 31 AND 33, KING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1254539
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: ELITE BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: ELITE BUILDING, 25, 27, 31 AND 33, KING STREET

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:: ELITE BUILDING, 25, 27, 31 AND 33, KING 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 57222 40058

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SW KING STREET 646-1/14/308 (East side) 12/07/72 Nos.25, 27, 31 AND 33 Elite building (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET Nos.25 AND 27) (Formerly Listed as: UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET Nos.31 AND 33) (Formerly Listed as: UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET The Elite Cinema) (Formerly Listed as: UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET Premises occupied by GF Cope & Co Ltd)

GV II*

Cinema and shops. 1921, altered mid C20, converted 1991. By Adamson & Kinns. Steel frame, with concrete floors and brick cladding. White faience facing and dressings, and slate roofs. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill and lintel bands, relief friezes between floors, scalloped main cornice, stepped coped parapet. 4 storeys plus attics; 9 window range. L-plan. Windows are mainly original swing casements with glazing bar upper lights. 4 storeys plus attics; 9 window range divided into bays by full height pilasters, each topped with a niche on an enriched bracket, containing an allegorical figure. Main front has a triple entrance bay with mid C20 door canopy, and a pedimented dormer with round-arched window. On either side, 3 bays, each with 3 tripartite windows on each floor. Ground floor has segment-arched openings with mid and late C20 shopfronts. At each end, an angled corner bay with a round-arched ground floor window and a pedimented dormer with a segment-arched window. Right return, to Queen Street, has 2 glazed bays similar to the front, then 7 blind bays with segment-arched shopfronts, 1992. Left return, to King Street, has 2 glazed bays similar to the front. To left, a narrower entrance bay with a recessed glazed door flanked by curved shop windows, and above a segment-arched window. Above, 2 windows on each floor. INTERIOR: has public rooms decorated in different historical styles. Largely original auditorium, with a square proscenium arch and a cartouche and supporters above. Side walls have 3 panels in the form of round-arched windows, with flanking columns, portrait medallions, and swags. Elaborate frieze of figures. Reticulated coved ceiling over the balcony, and a simpler coved ceiling to the rear. First floor foyer in Adam style, with panelled walls and coffered ceiling with corner arabesques. Second floor foyer in Jacobean Revival style, with framed panelling and strapwork ceiling. Fireplace with the monogram EPT (Elite Picture Theatre) in the overmantel. Second floor restaurant in Classical Revival style with panelled walls, double Ionic pilasters, and modillion cross beams to enriched ceiling. Fireplace with overmantel mirror. Second floor side room, fully panelled, with frieze painted with nursery rhyme scenes. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 234).

Listing NGR: SK5722240058

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Legacy System number:: 457422
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 234

Legal

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