Registry Office and Attached Area Wall and Railings
REGISTRY OFFICE AND ATTACHED AREA WALL AND RAILINGS, 50, SHAKESPEARE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255016
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Registry Office and Attached Area Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- REGISTRY OFFICE AND ATTACHED AREA WALL AND RAILINGS, 50, SHAKESPEARE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255016
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Registry Office and Attached Area Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- REGISTRY OFFICE AND ATTACHED AREA WALL AND RAILINGS, 50, SHAKESPEARE 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.
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:
- REGISTRY OFFICE AND ATTACHED AREA WALL AND RAILINGS, 50, SHAKESPEARE 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 57033 40405
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5740SW SHAKESPEARE STREET 646-1/14/546 (North side) No.50 Registry Office and attached area wall and railings
GV II
Former Poor Law offices, now Registry Office, and attached area wall and railings. 1886-87. By AH Goodall, built by Kent & Johnson. Converted mid C20 and altered late C20. Red brick with ashlar dressings and pink granite columns, and Westmorland slate roofs, gabled and hipped. Italian Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor sill band, main cornice. Windows are plain sashes, round and segment-headed, flanked by shafts on the main fronts. 2 storeys plus basement and attics. 2 x 7 windows. Corner site, with main and return fronts linked by a towered corner feature. Canted corner tower, 3 stages, has ornamented cornice and parapet, and octagonal spire roof. On each floor, 5 arcaded windows, the ground floor segment-headed. Shakespeare Street front has 2 closely set projecting bays topped with through-eaves dormers under coped gables. Entrance bay, to right, has a stone doorcase with round-arched opening and cornice, and late C20 canopy. Above, a single window. Left bay has paired windows, the ground floor segment-arched. Right return, to Shakespeare Villas, has a gabled off-centre bay with a massive 4 window oriel, on the first floor, with brackets and balcony. Single window below and paired window above, To left, 2 narrow bays with irregular fenestration. To right, a minor range, 4 windows, with machicolated cornice. Second window converted to a door, mid C20. At the rear, a square chimney in the form of a campanile. Outside, to the corner and right return, a coped area wall topped with the original wrought-iron railing. INTERIOR has entrance hall with granite pilasters, and open well cantilever stone stair with wrought-iron balustrade and wooden handrail. Landing and main first floor rooms have cornices and pedimented doorcases. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 238).
Listing NGR: SK5703340405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458594
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 238
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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