County Court Buildings

COUNTY COURT BUILDINGS, ST PETER'S GATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255160
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
County Court Buildings
Statutory Address:
COUNTY COURT BUILDINGS, ST PETER'S GATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255160
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
County Court Buildings
Statutory Address 1:
COUNTY COURT BUILDINGS, ST PETER'S GATE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
COUNTY COURT BUILDINGS, ST PETER'S GATE

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 57346 39822

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/02/2015


SK5739NW
646-1/20/16


NOTTINGHAM,
ST PETER'S GATE (East side),
County Court Buildings

(Formerly listed as The Court Public House, ST PETER'S GATE (East side).

Previously listed as: County Court, BANK PLACE)

12/07/72

GV II

Former county court. c1875, with mid C20
alterations. By JG Sorby. Ashlar and brick, with ashlar
dressings and slate mansard roof. Italianate style.
Vermiculated plinth, channelled rustication, first floor
cornice and impost band, modillion main cornice and
balustrade. 2 storeys plus attics and basement; 11 x 5
windows. Windows are mainly wooden framed casements and French
windows. Main front, to Bank Place, has 9 recessed windows
with cornices and balustrades, divided by Ionic pilasters and
with lunettes above them. On either side, a similar window
with voussoirs. Above, a tall attic storey with supporting
volutes and dentillated cornice, with 4 similar windows under
pediments and blank lunettes. Ground floor has 10 windows with
voussoirs, and to left, a door in a similar opening. 6
basement openings.
Right return, to St Peter's Gate, has similar fenestration,
with 3 French windows under lunettes, flanked by single
windows with voussoirs. Above, a pedimented dormer with a
round-arched opening, flanked to left by a mansard roof with 2
windows. Below, a central panelled double door with the Royal
arms in a panel above it, flanked by single windows. To left,
a blank, and to right, a double door with overlight. All these
openings have voussoirs.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 230).


Listing NGR: SK5734639822

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Legacy System number:
458589
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 230

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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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