11, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254668
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: 11, KING STREET
Statutory Address:: 11, KING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254668
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: 11, KING STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 11, 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:: 11, 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 57220 40012

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SW KING STREET 646-1/14/306 (West side) 06/06/72 No.11 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET Prudential Assurance Building)

GV II

Insurance company offices, now offices. 1880-1890. By Alfred Waterhouse for the Prudential Assurance Co. Restored and converted 1991. Red brick, with granite basement and terracotta dressings, and gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. Flemish Renaissance Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill bands, ground floor and eaves cornices, latticework balustrade. Acute-angled corner block, 3 storeys plus basement and attics; 3 x 5 bays. Windows are mainly cross casements with elaborate terracotta surrounds. Corner entrance bay has an elaborate opening with steps to a recessed door. Overdoor framed by pilasters, with central figure and niche, flanked by shields and small mullioned windows, all under a cornice. Above, 2 floors with double windows and a pierced balcony. Above again, a square tower, 2 stages, with corner turrets and spires, and an octagonal main spire with patterned leadwork and finial. The spire has lucarnes and a tier of bell openings. On each side, a curved double bay with a central pilaster, with 4 windows on the lower floors and 2 windows above, topped with a gabled dormer. Basement has 4 openings. Returns, 5 bays, are identical, with 4 regular courses of windows and gabled dormers. 2 round-arched basement openings in each bay. Emphasised end bays have similar fenestration plus round-arched doorways and elaborate gabled dormers topped with square-spired fleches. INTERIOR has some original features, including round stairwell with stone spiral stair and wrought-iron railing, and similar minor stair. Entrance hall has moulded glazed tile panel and 3 door surrounds. Banking hall has textured tiling and strapwork panelled ceiling with enriched dentillated cornices. 2 chamfered round arches to similarly tiled corridor. Faience tile fireplace with arcaded canopy, and clock dated 1895. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 234).

Listing NGR: SK5722040012

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Legacy System number:: 457420
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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

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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.