THE FRONTAGE

THE FRONTAGE, QUEEN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270495
Date first listed:: 17-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: THE FRONTAGE
Statutory Address:: THE FRONTAGE, QUEEN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270495
Date first listed:: 17-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: THE FRONTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE FRONTAGE, QUEEN 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:: THE FRONTAGE, QUEEN 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 57190 40003

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NW QUEEN STREET 646-1/20/508 (South West side) 17/08/72 The Frontage (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN STREET Former Head Post Office)

GV II

Head post office, now offices. 1895-98. By Tanner of the Office of Works. Rebuilt, apart from the facade, c1985. Ashlar, with slate roof and various coped ashlar stacks, some renewed. Renaissance Revival style. Plinth, cornices, blocking course, coped gables. Windows, reglazed, are mainly mullioned, with cross mullions on the second floor. Stone mullions and transoms. 3 and 4 storeys plus attics; 17 windows, alternating 1/3. 4 blocks, giving an almost symmetrical facade. Main block, 3 storeys plus attics, 3 bays, has 2 modillion cornices and is divided by giant Ionic columns on pedestals. Ground floor has 3 tall round arches containing a pedimented doorcase with granite surround, flanked by plate glass windows, all with fanlights. Above, 3 windows on each floor, and above again, a pedimented dormer with side columns and a cross-framed window. On each side, small pedimented dormers. Projecting side bays have flat-headed doorways with small triple windows over them. Above, regular fenestration and large dormers. Side blocks, 3 bays, have central round-arched doorways with columns, flanked by flat-headed transomed windows. Above, regular fenestration and 3 small dormers. Projecting end bays have cross mullioned windows to the ground floor, and above, regular fenestration and single dormers, the right bay with a larger dormer. To right, an additional bay, 3 windows, with cross mullioned windows to each floor. Altered ground floor window to right. 3 large attic windows with segmental pediments. End bay, to right, has a C20 entrance, and above, regular fenestration and a large dormer. To right, an additional block, 3 windows. Only the facade of this former Post Office is of special architectural interest. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 234).

Listing NGR: SK5719040003

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Legacy System number:: 458505
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 234

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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.