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NOTTINGHAM SK5739NW LONG ROW
646-1/20/339 (North side)
22/05/90 No.33 GV II Cinema, now amusement arcade, with refreshment room and
offices, plus rock hewn underground caves. C13, and 1910-12,
with later C20 alterations. Steel framing and brick, clad in
faience tile.
Symmetrical front, 4 storeys plus attics; 2 window range.
Ground floor arcade with 3 Ionic marble columns with fascia
above. Late C20 shopfront. Above, 2 recessed bow windows,
copper clad, with Ionic pilasters and decorative frieze. Above
them, 2 Diocletian windows with moulded arches, decorative
keystones, and cherubs' heads at the springing of the arches.
First and second floors are articulated with plaster strips
topped by an entablature. Above again, 2 canted bay windows, 4
lights, with side lights, topped by a curved and decorated
frieze. Above them, 2 banded gables with diamond openings.
INTERIOR: basement has 2 early medieval rock hewn barrel
vaulted caves, one with a square moulded pier with capital,
the other with a free standing octagonal pier with moulded
base and capital. There is also a rock hewn circular well.
To the rear of the site is the former auditorium of the
Picture Palace Cinema, 1912, floored in at a later date. This
retains its segment-arched moulded plaster ceiling and over
the proscenium arch, a plaster relief of galleons. The cinema
foyer on the first floor retains its panelling and a shallow
plaster dome.
Listing NGR: SK5719239941
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