CRIPPS HALL OF RESIDENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

CRIPPS HALL OF RESIDENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, LENTON HALL DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254542
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: CRIPPS HALL OF RESIDENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Statutory Address:: CRIPPS HALL OF RESIDENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, LENTON HALL DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254542
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: CRIPPS HALL OF RESIDENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Statutory Address 1:: CRIPPS HALL OF RESIDENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, LENTON HALL DRIVE

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:: CRIPPS HALL OF RESIDENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, LENTON HALL DRIVE

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 54171 38638

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK53NW LENTON HALL DRIVE 646-1/6/309 (South East side) 29/03/88 Cripps Hall of Residence, University of Nottingham (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON BOULEVARD Cripps Hall of Residence, University of Nottingham)

II

Hall of residence. 1957-59. By Farquaharson, McMorran & Whitby. Endowed by Cyril Thomas Cripps. Buff brick, with ashlar dressings and hipped green slate roofs with parapets. Renaissance Revival style. EXTERIOR: 3 storey residential blocks with single storey Great Hall range. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes with brick flat arches. 2 quadrangles, joined at their corners, surrounded by linked blocks. High Court, to north, has 3 sides, with the main entrance block on the north side and warden's house adjoining. To east, the Great Hall and kitchens. Residential block to west. Entrance range 2 storeys, has a central opening with 2 giant Ionic columns under continuous roof, flanked by residential blocks, 4 windows, with massive slab stacks. Warden's house, 2 storeys, 3 x 3 windows, has a pyramidal roof with a central slab stack. Great Hall has to right 2 segment-arched entrances with glazed panels above, set in tall segment-arched openings. Between them a square clock tower, set flush, with a glazing bar window. Above, a clock dial to west. Segment-arched belfry with slab roof and weather vane. To left, 6 large glazing bar windows in recessed stone architraves. At the rear, a single storey corridor and a 3-storey block, 7 windows. Residential block has regular fenestration. Southern court has residential blocks on each side, with regular fenestration, segment-arched passages, and doorways with rusticated surrounds. INTERIOR: Great hall has a panelled entrance lobby and segment-arched double doors to a half-panelled dining room with beamed ceiling. First floor corridor with brick segmental arches. Double doors flanked by 3 windows, all segment-arched, to plaster vaulted hall. (The Builder : 15/1: 1960-: 97-111; Chablo D: University Architecture in Britain, 1950-1975).

Listing NGR: SK5417138638

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Legacy System number:: 457425
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'The Builder' in The Builder, (1960), 97-111

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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.