Waverley Building, Nottingham Trent University
WAVERLEY BUILDING, NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY, WAVERLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270408
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Waverley Building, Nottingham Trent University
- Statutory Address:
- WAVERLEY BUILDING, NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY, WAVERLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270408
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Waverley Building, Nottingham Trent University
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAVERLEY BUILDING, NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY, WAVERLEY 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:
- WAVERLEY BUILDING, NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY, WAVERLEY 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 56758 40562
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK54SE WAVERLEY STREET 646-1/4/701 (North East side) 12/07/72 Waverley Building, Nottingham Trent University (Formerly Listed as: WAVERLEY STREET Waverley Annexe to Trent Polytechnic)
II
Formerly known as: College of Art & Design WAVERLEY STREET. Art college, now university building. 1863-65. By Frederick Bakewell of Nottingham. Altered mid C20. Ashlar, with pink granite columns, encaustic tile frieze, and slate roof. Italianate style. Rockfaced plinth, rusticated ground floor and rebated quoins, minor cornice, modillion eaves cornice with brackets. Replica balustrade with pedestals. 2 storeys plus basement; 3:1:3 bays. Windows are casements. Central square tower porch, 2 storeys, with unglazed openings on each floor. Above, a square tower with traceried windows, square dome with fish-scale tiles, clock faces, and turret finial. On each side, 3 windows, those to the ground floor plain. First floor has shafts and moulded surrounds to the windows, with portrait medallions of artists and architect on the quoins. Returns have a central panelled and coped stack, flanked by single windows on each floor. INTERIOR remodelled mid C20, with concrete return flight staircase. The college was established to encourage design in lace, etc. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 239).
Listing NGR: SK5675840562
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459060
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 239
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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