TOWER HOUSE

TOWER HOUSE, 53, PARK ROW

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254871
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: TOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TOWER HOUSE, 53, PARK ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254871
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: TOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER HOUSE, 53, PARK ROW

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:: TOWER HOUSE, 53, PARK 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 56763 39705

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NE PARK ROW 646-1/19/468 (East side) No.53 Tower House

GV II

House. 1827-33, probably designed by PF Robinson and built by William Paterson for the fourth Duke of Newcastle. Altered c1860, by TC Hine, raised and altered c1880 by Watson Fothergill. Red brick, mainly rendered, with rock-faced ashlar basement and timber-framed attic with brick nogging. Terracotta dressings and slate roofs. 2 coped side wall stacks, rendered. String courses, ground floor and first floor terracotta friezes, cornice and coped parapet. 3 storeys plus basement and attics; 3 window range. Projecting central tower porch, square, with pyramidal roof and finial. Ground floor has 2 round-headed sashes with a central shaft, carrying a corbel. Above, a canted stone bay window, hipped, with 3 sashes. Above again, a smaller window, 3-lights with round-arched plain sashes. Attic has a small plain sash to each return. Basement has 2 small windows and side door. To left, a balustrade wall with ramped coping and square end pier with cornice. Porch left return has stone steps to a round-arched side doorway with double shafts and 4-panel door with lattice overlight. Flanking the porch, large basement windows, that to left with glazing bars. Above, single glazing bar sashes, and above again, smaller glazing bar sashes. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 17).

Listing NGR: SK5676339705

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Legacy System number:: 457978
Legacy System:: LBS

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Brand, K, 'Get To Know Nottingham' in Watson Fothergill Architect, (1987), 17

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.