Queen's Chambers
1 TO 7, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254714
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- 1 TO 7, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254714
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 TO 7, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- QUEEN'S CHAMBERS, 25 AND 26, LONG ROW
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1 TO 7, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN'S CHAMBERS, 25 AND 26, LONG ROW
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 57219 39949
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5739NW LONG ROW 646-1/20/336 (North side) 12/07/72 Nos.25 AND 26 Queen's Chambers (Formerly Listed as: LOW PAVEMENT Nos.25 AND 26) (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET Nos.1-7 (Odd))
GV II
Includes: Nos.1-7 KING STREET. Shops and offices. 1897. By Watson Fothergill for EW Skipwith. Restored 1992. Gothic Revival style. Red brick, with ashlar and terracotta dressings. Jettied timber-framed gables with bargeboards. Renewed plain tile roof with 3 massive side wall stacks. Windows are cross casements with stone mullions and tracery, and plainer wooden windows to the attics. 3 and 4 storeys plus attics. 2 x 6 bays. Corner site, emphasised by an octagonal tourelle with spire and lucarnes. Long Row front has a ground floor colonnade with granite piers and renewed shopfronts. Above, 2 windows on each floor, 3 of them oriels. Above all, 2 gables. King Street front has a central entrance bay with traceried windows, topped by a crenellated tower. To its left, a plain bay with pairs of windows and a hipped attic dormer. To left again, the corner block, with renewed shopfronts and a central 3-storey oriel window under a gable. To right, a double bay with renewed shopfronts, two 2-storey oriel windows, and double gables. This building is an outstanding example of Fothergill's work, using features drawn from Burges and Shaw. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 13; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 234).
Listing NGR: SK5721939949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457453
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 234
Brand, K, Get To Know Nottingham in Watson Fothergill Architect, (1987), 13
Legal
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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