GATEWAYS AND SCREENS AT NORTH END OF EMBANKMENT

GATEWAYS AND SCREENS AT NORTH END OF EMBANKMENT, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255199
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: GATEWAYS AND SCREENS AT NORTH END OF EMBANKMENT
Statutory Address:: GATEWAYS AND SCREENS AT NORTH END OF EMBANKMENT, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255199
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: GATEWAYS AND SCREENS AT NORTH END OF EMBANKMENT
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAYS AND SCREENS AT NORTH END OF EMBANKMENT, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAYS AND SCREENS AT NORTH END OF EMBANKMENT, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT

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 58005 38213

Details

SK53NE 646-1/7/663

NOTTINGHAM, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT (North side), Gateways and screens at north end of Embankment

GV II

Gateways and screens at north end of Victoria Embankment. c1901-05. Probably by T Wallis Gordon, Corporation Surveyor. Ashlar, with wrought-iron gates and cast-iron railings. Square piers with plinths, cornices and shallow pyramidal caps. In the centre, a pier flanked by pairs of gates to the roadways. On each side, a screen wall with smaller end piers, with concave top and cast-iron railing. Footpaths on each side. Part of the original landscaping of Victoria Embankment, largely paid for by Sir Jesse Boot. Included for group value. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 248)

Listing NGR: SK5800538213

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Legacy System number:: 458925
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 248

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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.