Gateway, Screen Walls and Railings at South West Entrance to Arboretum
GATEWAY, SCREEN WALLS AND RAILINGS AT SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO ARBORETUM, WAVERLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270421
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway, Screen Walls and Railings at South West Entrance to Arboretum
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY, SCREEN WALLS AND RAILINGS AT SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO ARBORETUM, WAVERLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270421
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway, Screen Walls and Railings at South West Entrance to Arboretum
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY, SCREEN WALLS AND RAILINGS AT SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO ARBORETUM, 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:
- GATEWAY, SCREEN WALLS AND RAILINGS AT SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO ARBORETUM, 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 56698 40575
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK54SE WAVERLEY STREET 646-1/4/687 (North East side) Gateway, screen walls and railings at south-west entrance to Arboretum
GV II
Gateway, screen walls and railings to Arboretum. 1851-52. By Henry Moses Wood, Corporation Surveyor. Ashlar, cast and wrought-iron. Tudor Revival style. Triple gateway with 4 panelled octagonal piers topped with ogee domes and finials. Original wrought-iron gates. On each side, serpentine screen walls, approx. 10m long, with plinth and moulded coping. End piers identical to the gate piers. To left, cast-iron spiked railing running approx 400m along Waverley Street to the north west entrance. Part of the original architectural scheme of the Arboretum, laid out 1850-52 by Samuel Curtis of London. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 240).
Listing NGR: SK5669840575
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458951
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 240
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 33 Nottinghamshire,
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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