WILLOUGHBY HOUSE

WILLOUGHBY HOUSE, 20 AND 22, LOW PAVEMENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1254559
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: WILLOUGHBY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WILLOUGHBY HOUSE, 20 AND 22, LOW PAVEMENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1254559
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: WILLOUGHBY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WILLOUGHBY HOUSE, 20 AND 22, LOW PAVEMENT

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:: WILLOUGHBY HOUSE, 20 AND 22, LOW 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 57381 39665

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NW LOW PAVEMENT 646-1/20/355 (South side) 11/08/52 Nos.20 AND 22 Willoughby House

GV II*

Town house, now offices. c1738, altered late C18, restored and converted late C20. For Rothwell Willoughby. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible behind coped parapet. Plinth, chamfered quoins, moulded eaves cornice. 3 storeys; 5 window range. Windows are 12-pane sashes with bolection moulded surrounds and keystones. Central doorcase with Roman Ionic columns, broken segmental pediment and moulded keystone. 4-panel double doors with overlight. Garden front has similar regular fenestration with brick flat arches and keystones. Central doorway, converted to a window, with frostwork surround and mask keystone. INTERIOR retains original features, including a wooden dogleg stair with turned and twist balusters and ramped scrolled handrail. Similar, plainer stair on upper floors. Half-panelled first floor room with corniced doorcase. Other rooms have mainly original joinery. Principal rafter roof. Original rock-cut cellars include 3 circular rooms with central columns and integral tables. The largest has a rock thrawl, the others, wine bins. Access passages have rendered brick vaults. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 230; Reprint from The Mercian Geologist, Vol. 13, Sept. 1992: Waltham AC: The sandstone caves of Nottingham: Nottingham: 1992-: 5,10).

Listing NGR: SK5738139665

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Legacy System number:: 457472
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 230
'The Mercian Geologist' in The Mercian Geologist, (1992), 5, 10

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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.