Adult Education Centre and Railings
ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE AND RAILINGS, 14 TO 22, SHAKESPEARE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255162
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Adult Education Centre and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE AND RAILINGS, 14 TO 22, SHAKESPEARE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255162
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Adult Education Centre and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE AND RAILINGS, 14 TO 22, 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:
- ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE AND RAILINGS, 14 TO 22, 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 57194 40366
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5740SW SHAKESPEARE STREET 646-1/14/545 (North side) 12/07/72 Nos.14-22 (Even) Adult Education Centre and railings (Formerly Listed as: SHAKESPEARE STREET Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham)
GV II
Town house, now adult education centre, and area railings. c1850, with addition c1880, converted mid C20. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible. Classical style. Plinth, quoins, first floor sill band, entablature and blocking course. 3 storeys; 7 windows, arranged 2:3:2. Windows are plain sashes. Projecting centre with an unusual Ionic portico with 2 columns in antis, with rusticated basement and quoins and dentillated pediment. Elliptical arched doorway with keystone and crest, panelled door with fanlight and side panels. Above, pedimented central window flanked by narrow round-arched windows. Above again, similar fenestration with smaller windows. Side bays have 2 windows on each floor, in moulded surrounds. Outside, in front of the side bays, cast-iron area railings on a chamfered ashlar plinth. Addition, to left, red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. 2 storeys; 4 window range. Windows are top hung casements. Off-centre square tower, 2 stages, with pyramidal roof and single window on each floor. To left, a gable with 2 windows on each floor, and to right, a narrow entrance bay with door and single window. INTERIOR mainly refitted mid C20. Moulded cornice in ground floor office. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 239).
Listing NGR: SK5719440366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458593
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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