Steps Cave 10 Metres South East of Number 14A
STEPS CAVE 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NUMBER 14A, PARK TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344947
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Steps Cave 10 Metres South East of Number 14A
- Statutory Address:
- STEPS CAVE 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NUMBER 14A, PARK TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344947
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Steps Cave 10 Metres South East of Number 14A
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEPS CAVE 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NUMBER 14A, PARK TERRACE
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:
- STEPS CAVE 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NUMBER 14A, PARK TERRACE
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 56560 39868
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5639NE PARK TERRACE 646-1/19/478 (South West side) Steps cave 10m south-east of No.14A (not included)
GV II
Man made ornamental cave. c1870, restored late C20. Made for Alderman Thomas Herbert. The cave is cut in a natural rock face. Round-arched doorway flanked to left by an unglazed opening, both round-arched. To right, regular rows of small niches cut in the rock face. The doorway gives access to a round-arched tunnel with a renewed brick staircase, leading to an upper terrace. This cave and others nearby were originally garden features in the grounds of Herbert's house in the Ropewalk (not included). Overlying buildings are not of special interest. (Reprint from The Mercian Geologist, Vol. 13, Sept. 1992: Waltham AC: The sandstone caves of Nottingham: Nottingham: 1992-: 15).
Listing NGR: SK5656039868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Mercian Geologist in The Mercian Geologist, (1992), 15
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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