DOROTHY BOOT HOMES AND GARDEN TERRACE WALL

DOROTHY BOOT HOMES AND GARDEN TERRACE WALL, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254566
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: DOROTHY BOOT HOMES AND GARDEN TERRACE WALL
Statutory Address:: DOROTHY BOOT HOMES AND GARDEN TERRACE WALL, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254566
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: DOROTHY BOOT HOMES AND GARDEN TERRACE WALL
Statutory Address 1:: DOROTHY BOOT HOMES AND GARDEN TERRACE WALL, MAIN ROAD

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:: DOROTHY BOOT HOMES AND GARDEN TERRACE WALL, MAIN ROAD

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 56726 37572

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK53NE MAIN ROAD, Wilford 646-1/7/817 (East side) Dorothy Boot Homes and garden terrace wall

GV II

Eleven almshouses. 1908. Paid for by Jesse Boot of Nottingham. Brick, roughcast, with brick dressings and sham timber framing. Gabled and hipped plain tile roofs, with 8 ridge and 6 side wall stacks. Vernacular Revival style. Brick plinth, wrought-iron gutter brackets and bracket lamps. Windows are casements, with wooden mullions and transoms. Doors have round arches. Almshouses, single storey plus attics; 7 bays. Half-butterfly plan, with balanced irregular facades. Central block has a huge jettied gable, close studded, covering a verandah with 2 canted bay windows flanked by doorways. In the gable, 2 windows. On each side, 2 cross casements, and above, a large gabled dormer with 2 windows. Right range has to left a hipped porch covering a bay window and door, then a cross casement. Above, a large gabled dormer with 2 windows. To right, a hipped verandah covering a window. Left range has a central doorway flanked to right by a hipped porch with door and bay window, and to left by a cross casement. Above, a box dormer to left, and a gabled dormer to right. To left again, a square bay window, 2 storeys, 3-lights, with a flat roof. To left again, a projecting range, 2 bays, with to left a projecting wing with jettied timber-framed gable. Left return has a smaller projecting gable on posts. At the front, a terrace wall to a sunken garden, coursed squared stone, with pedestals and ball finials, some missing. These almshouses were intended for the use of Crimean War and Indian Mutiny veterans. (Wilford then and now: Mellors R: Nottingham: 1914-: 264).

Listing NGR: SK5672637572

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Legacy System number:: 457489
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Mellors, R, Wilford Then and Now, (1914), 264

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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.