The Vale Hotel (Public House)
THE VALE HOTEL (PUBLIC HOUSE), MANSFIELD ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255455
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Vale Hotel (Public House)
- Statutory Address:
- THE VALE HOTEL (PUBLIC HOUSE), MANSFIELD ROAD
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2007-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/16556/21
- Rights:
- © Dr Eric Ritchie. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255455
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Vale Hotel (Public House)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VALE HOTEL (PUBLIC HOUSE), MANSFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE VALE HOTEL (PUBLIC HOUSE), THACKERAY'S LANE
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:
- THE VALE HOTEL (PUBLIC HOUSE), MANSFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE VALE HOTEL (PUBLIC HOUSE), THACKERAY'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Gedling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 57926 44385
Details
GEDLING SK 54 SE MANSFIELD ROAD, Daybrook (East side) 1569- /6/10013 The Vale Hotel (public house) GV II Hotel, now public house. 1935-37, extended 1964. Designed by T Cecil Howitt of Nottingham, for Home Ales Brewery. Pale brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile hipped roof with 2 ridge chimney stacks. Plain parapets topped with ashlar coping to all walls, and flat roofs to wings. Ashlar plinth and sill band. 2 storey with single storey wings. EXTERIOR. West front has projecting ground floor with 6 tall recessed windows linked by lintel and sill bands with stepped brick jambs, windows are 16-pane cross casements with margin light glazing. To either side set back, projecting lower porches, that to left with side doorway in stepped back brick surround with double panel doors, and that to right with front door in similar brick surround with single panel door. Above slightly projecting central section has 3 recessed windows in similar surrounds, windows are IS-pane tripartite cross casements. Set back side wings blank on both floors. North front has projecting single storey wing with semi-circular bowed window with S tall recessed windows in similar surrounds, windows are 16-pane cross casements with margin light glazing. Above 2 recessed windows in similar surrounds, windows are IS-pane tripartite cross casements. To left projecting altered wing with doorway in stepped back brick surround with double panel doors. South wing has similar fenestration and bowed ground floor wing as north front. Rear east front has later single storey wing, added 1964 in similar style, with S-light canted bay window. Above original slightly projecting centre, similar to west front, with 3 recessed windows in similar surrounds, windows are IS-pane tripartite cross casements. Either side set back wings have 2 similar, smaller windows, that to far right with a glazed door. Original metal frame casement windows throughout. INTERIOR, retains original plan form, with new bar added to rear by Howitt & Partners 1964, and most of its original Art Deco style decoration. Including original fluted bar front and arch and wooden panelling to south Smoke Room & Buffet, original bar to Public Bar. Original wooden panelling to Hall and Lounge, division between removed. Original coving, some original light fittings, original wooden door surrounds and doors with chrome door furniture. This fine quality Thirties public house designed by an important local, and nationally known, architect T Cecil Howitt, is extremely well preserved both externally and internally. It was featured in an important contemporary book, The Planning and Equipment of Public Houses by facis W B Yourke, which illustrated the very best examples of public house architecture of the period.
Listing NGR: SK5792644385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459723
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Yorke, F W B, The Planning and Equipment of Public Houses, (1949)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 04-Jun-2026 at 07:40:38.
Download a full scale map (PDF)© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
End of official list entry