14, 14A AND 16, ST JAMES' STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270498
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1995
List Entry Name:: 14, 14A AND 16, ST JAMES' STREET
Statutory Address:: 14, 14A AND 16, ST JAMES' STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270498
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1995
List Entry Name:: 14, 14A AND 16, ST JAMES' STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 14, 14A AND 16, ST JAMES' STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 14, 14A AND 16, ST JAMES' STREET

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District:: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 57036 39857

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NW ST JAMES' STREET 646-1/20/574 (North West side) 01/06/95 Nos.14, 14A AND 16

GV II

Formerly known as: Old Malt Cross Music Hall ST JAMES' STREET. Music hall, now cafe, and adjoining shops. Dated 1877. By Edwin Hill of Nottingham for Charles Weldon. Restored 1982-84, and converted to cafe 1987. Brick, roughcast, with stucco dressings. Glazed barrel vault to the music hall, slate roofs to the remainder. EXTERIOR: moulded string course and eaves. 2 storeys plus attics, with galleried basement and rock-cut cellar. The shops face the street, with the music hall entrance to the left, and the music hall itself at right angles. Front range, 2 storeys plus attics; 4 window range of square wooden oriels, with tripartite sashes and cornices. Above them, 4 round-arched through-eaves dormers with finials and plain sashes. Wooden shopfront, full width, with moulded cornice and cast-iron columns with foliage capitals. Ground floor has wooden shopfronts with central double door and round-arched windows, 2 and 3 lights, with wooden mullions and transoms. To left, a wide opening containing a bow fronted doorcase c1935 with crest. INTERIOR: music hall retains major original features. Laminated wood barrel vault, glazed, with tie rods and plaster centre panels. Central light well through all floors, now boarded over at ground floor level. Gallery on 3 sides with cast-iron balustrade, on cast-iron columns with elaborate foliage capitals. Cantilever dogleg stair with cast-iron balustrade. Replica panelling, bar, stage, canopy and rostrum. This building is a largely intact example of a galleried music hall, and has an early example of a laminated timber roof. The first is thought to have been at King's Cross Station, 1851-52, by Lewis Cubitt. St Matthias' Church, Nottingham (qv) 1868, by TC Hine, also has one. (Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire: Featherstone HL: Nottingham: 1962-: 96-106; Curl JS: Victorian Architecture: 1990-: 210).

Listing NGR: SK5703639857

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Legacy System number:: 458552
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Curl, JS , Victorian Architecture, (1990), 210
'Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire' in Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, (1962), 96-106

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.