Numbers 18, 19 and 20 and Attached Railings and Retaining Wall to Park Tunnel

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NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NE PARK TERRACE 646-1/19/482 (South West side) Nos.18, 19 AND 20 and attached railings and retaining wall to Park Tunnel

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House, now 3 houses, and attached railings and retaining wall to Park Tunnel. House dated 1881, tunnel retaining wall 1856, both by TC Hine of Nottingham. Altered late C19 and late C20. House, red brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with a truncated central ridge stack. Renaissance Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, second floor sill band, eaves cornice, coped parapet. Windows are mainly original plain sashes, those on the Park front mainly round-headed, with moulded brick surrounds. 2 storeys plus basement and attics; 4 window range. The house stands on the cliff above the tunnel entrance, and its lower storeys are integral with the retaining wall. The entrance is at ground floor level on Park Terrace. Park side, to south, has to left a projecting square bay, single storey plus basement. Elliptical arched basement opening, and above it a similar smaller opening with traceried balustrade. Above again, a balustraded balcony. To left, a taller octagonal corner tower with spire roof. To right, a bay with single windows and a gabled dormer, then a bay with a wooden balcony, 2 bays, with hipped roof. West end has a triangular bay window, 2 storeys, with plain sashes under pediments, one altered to a door. Above, a niche flanked by similar windows and pediments. Above again, a half-hipped roof with a gabled dormer, single light, flanked by roundels. To left, a round window, and above it, an oriel window set across the corner. Street front, to north, has a slightly projecting bay with a window on each floor and a shouldered dormer. To left, a window, and to right an inscribed datestone. Above, on each side, a single window. All these openings have pediments. To left, a square projection, 3 storeys, with a pedimented window and above, a roundel on each floor. Left return has a pedimented brick porch with round-arched doorway. Outside, to left, 4 square panelled gate piers, restored 1981, with stone caps. Central gateway flanked by terracotta balustrades. To left, a gate pier in the same style, late C20, with gate. To right, a wrought-iron spearhead railing across the street front. Beyond, a short railing with steps and central gateway to side entrance. Beyond again, a short plain railing, then the semicircular retaining wall to the tunnel, rock-faced stone with chamfered ashlar coping. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Park Tunnel (qv), begun in 1844 and completed by Hine in 1856, was intended as a formal entrance to the Park. This house and the tunnel are both major contributions by Hine to the development of the Park, which was carried out by the 4th and 5th Dukes of Newcastle. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: The Park estate, Nottingham: Nottingham: 1984-: 16,29; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine ; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 14, 16).

Listing NGR: SK5654339953

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Sources

Books and journals
Brand, Ken, Get To Know Nottingham in The Park Estate, (1984), 16,29
Brand, K, Get To Know Nottingham in Thomas Chambers Hine An Architect of Victorian Nottingham, (), 14, 16

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