Victoria Centre Clock Tower

VICTORIA CENTRE CLOCK TOWER, MILTON STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270622
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
Victoria Centre Clock Tower
Statutory Address:
VICTORIA CENTRE CLOCK TOWER, MILTON STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270622
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Victoria Centre Clock Tower
Statutory Address 1:
VICTORIA CENTRE CLOCK TOWER, MILTON 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
VICTORIA CENTRE CLOCK TOWER, MILTON 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 57325 40323

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SW MILTON STREET 646-1/14/432 (East side) 12/07/72 Victoria Centre Clock Tower (Formerly Listed as: MILTON STREET Victoria Station Tower)

GV II

Former station clock tower, now an ornamental feature. 1898-1900. By AE Lambert for the Great Central Railway Co. Retained as part of the Victoria Centre, 1965-72, by Arthur Swift & Partners. Red brick, with ashlar dressings. Baroque Revival style. Square tower, 3 stages, with clasping buttresses, cornice and balustrade with corner turrets and balconies. Copper-clad dome with 4 pedimented round-arched windows, domed cupola and wind vane. Ground floor has an ashlar front with a round-arched recess with voussoirs, panelled door and overlight with segmental pediment and triple keystone. Above it, a canted stone oriel window, 4 lights. Top stage has on each side a flush niche framing a clock dial, with balcony and segmental pediment on brackets. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 241).

Listing NGR: SK5732540323

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Legacy System number:
457948
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 241

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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