EXPRESS BUILDINGS

EXPRESS BUILDINGS, 29, UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255230
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: EXPRESS BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: EXPRESS BUILDINGS, 29, UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255230
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: EXPRESS BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: EXPRESS BUILDINGS, 29, UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET

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:: EXPRESS BUILDINGS, 29, UPPER PARLIAMENT 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 57253 40069

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SW UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET 646-1/14/656 (South side) No.29 Express Buildings

GV II

Offices and shops. c1900. Red brick, with granite and ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Renaissance Revival style, with polychrome ashlar bands. Major cornice, bays divided by pilasters. Windows are mainly original plain sashes, with stone surrounds, mullions and transoms. 4 storeys plus attics; 2 x 3 bays. Corner site with rounded corner, continuous shopfronts, and side entrance bay. Entrance bay, to Upper Parliament Street, has a heavily rusticated granite doorcase with segmental arch and voussoirs. Renewed door and sidelights. Above, a canted oriel window, 4 storeys, with a lead dome. Venetian window on the first floor and triple sash above. Above again, triple sash with rusticated columns and pediment, and to attics, a triple sash with shaped parapet. Shopfronts, divided by heavily rusticated granite pilasters, have single plate glass windows with bronze surrounds and fascia. Glazed doors to corner bay and left return. Upper floors have regular courses of windows, 2 lights, those to the first floor segment-arched. 3 windows to corner bay, 2 windows to the remainder. Corner bay has rusticated columns to the third floor windows. Alternate bays have segmental pediments to the attic windows, and shaped gables containing round windows, also with segmental pediments. King Street was formed in 1892.

Listing NGR: SK5725340069

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Legacy System number:: 458918
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.