Blue Bell Public House

BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 50, UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255231
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Blue Bell Public House
Statutory Address:
BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 50, UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255231
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Blue Bell Public House
Statutory Address 1:
BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 50, UPPER PARLIAMENT 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 50, 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 57195 40095

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SW UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET 646-1/14/658 (West side) No.50 Blue Bell Public House

GV II

Public house. Late C19, remodelled 1904, by Hedley J Price of Nottingham, altered mid and late C20. Red brick, with faience fronts and slate roofs with various gable stacks. Baroque Revival style front to Upper Parliament Street. 3 storeys plus attics; 3 bays. Green glazed faience shopfront with foliage pilasters. Central doorway with overlight and shell canopy, flanked by segment-arched cross mullioned windows. Upper floors, brown glazed, are divided by rusticated half-columns in 3 orders. First floor has a blank centre with a bracket carrying a dummy bell. On each side, a canted oriel window with bracket and crest, and ogee headed lights with transoms. Above again, a single window flanked by 3-light cross mullioned windows, all with segment heads and voussoirs. Attics, above the main cornice, have a broken segmental pediment with finial, flanked by a parapet. Central Venetian window with keystones, flanked by single windows, all composite sashes. Rear elevation to Forman Street, 3 storeys, 8 window range, has modillion cornice. Green and blue glazed pubfront with cross mullioned windows. Above, regular courses of composite sashes. INTERIOR mainly refitted late C20. Central bar, early C20, has panelled wainscotting and bow fronted bar, and cross beam ceiling with central skylight.

Listing NGR: SK5719540095

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Legacy System number:
458920
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.

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