Memorial Nurses' Home

MEMORIAL NURSES' HOME, KING CHARLES STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1254651
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Memorial Nurses' Home
Statutory Address:
MEMORIAL NURSES' HOME, KING CHARLES STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1254651
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Memorial Nurses' Home
Statutory Address 1:
MEMORIAL NURSES' HOME, KING CHARLES STREET

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MEMORIAL NURSES' HOME, KING CHARLES 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 56852 39592

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NE KING CHARLES STREET 646-1/19/305 (West side) Memorial Nurses' Home

GV II

Nurses' home. 1921-23. By Evans, Cartwright & Woollett of Nottingham. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and hipped green slate mansard roofs. 6 coped brick side wall stacks. Stripped Classical style. Plinth, main cornice, coped parapet forming a balcony to the upper attics. Windows are mainly paired glazing bar sashes with slightly segmental rubbed brick heads, burnt brick surrounds, and keystones. Attics have similar, smaller windows with flat heads. 3 storeys plus attics; 15 bays, arranged 1:5:3:5:1. Single range, with symmetrical facade with projecting centre and end bays. Central portico, 3 storeys, 3 bays, with giant Ionic columns in antis, and bronze lettering to the frieze reading "1914 in remembrance 1918". Under the portico, 3 cross framed French windows. Above, 4 windows flanked by wreaths, under a low pitched gable with a bronze crest and crossed flags. Upper attic has 3 windows. On each side, single windows, then 3 pairs of windows to each floor and attics. End bays are defined by giant pilasters, with a single pair of windows. At the rear, a central portico, 2 storeys, with double Ionic columns and open pediment. On each side, regular fenestration, with double windows in the end bays. At the east end, a flat roofed projection, single storey, with parapet with tile detail.

Listing NGR: SK5685239592

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Legacy System number:
457418
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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