Norris Homes
NORRIS HOMES, BERRIDGE ROAD EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271347
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Norris Homes
- Statutory Address:
- NORRIS HOMES, BERRIDGE ROAD EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271347
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Norris Homes
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORRIS HOMES, BERRIDGE ROAD EAST
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:
- NORRIS HOMES, BERRIDGE ROAD EAST
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 56605 41804
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK54SE BERRIDGE ROAD EAST 646-1/4/32 (North side) 22/03/88 Norris Homes
GV II
Formerly known as: Norris Ladies Home BERRIDGE ROAD EAST. Row of 8 almshouses. 1892-93. By Watson Fothergill of Nottingham for Mary Smith Norris in memory of her brother John. Restored 1991. Red brick, with ashlar, blue brick and terracotta dressings. Gabled and hipped plain tile roofs, with terracotta finials and 10 tall, elaborately moulded brick stacks. EXTERIOR: deep blue brick chamfered plinth, moulded sill and lintel bands to ground floor, 2 blue brick bands above. Windows are wooden framed cross casements with leaded glazing. 2 storeys; 16 window range. U-plan. Symmetrical front, with a recessed centre under 6 gables, flanked by projecting hipped wings. In the centre, 2 windows, 3-lights, flanked by buttressed triangular porches, each with 2 plank doors with ogee heads. Beyond, 2 windows, then hipped half-porches in the return angles. Above, two 2-light windows in each bay, and gables with patterned tile hanging. Hipped wings have a canted hipped bay window, 1:2:1 lights, and above, a 3-light window. Left corner has a bell under a gabled canopy. Right return has a central pent roofed wooden porch, flanked to right by a window and to left by an inscribed plaque with side columns. Over the porch, a portrait bust in an octagonal surround, to Mary Smith Norris, 1827-1909, flanked by small window. To right, a round turret with swept conical roof and weathercock. At the rear, lean-to privies attached by side walls, and 4 hipped through-eaves dormers. INTERIOR is said to retain original doors and staircases, but not fireplaces. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 10).
Listing NGR: SK5660541804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454782
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brand, K, Get To Know Nottingham in Watson Fothergill Architect, (1987), 10
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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