Provident Works, Office and boundary walls

Provident Works, Office and boundary walls, Newdigate Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1376497
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1998
List Entry Name:
Provident Works, Office and boundary walls
Statutory Address:
Provident Works, Office and boundary walls, Newdigate Street
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1376497
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1998
List Entry Name:
Provident Works, Office and boundary walls
Statutory Address 1:
Provident Works, Office and boundary walls, Newdigate Street

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
Provident Works, Office and boundary walls, Newdigate 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 56233 40475

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 February 2024 to correct a typo in the name, address and description and to reformat the text to current standards

SK 5640
646-1/12/10016

SW NEWDIGATE STREET (Northwest side)
Provident Works, Office and boundary walls

GV
II

Alternatively known as: Provident Works, Office and boundary walls, GAMBLE STREET Lace tenement factory. c1860, altered mid C20. Red brick, with ashlar and brick dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs behind parapet. Plinth, second floor sill band, modillion cornice and string course. Windows are mainly original cast-iron glazing bar casements with wedge lintels. Four storeys; 2:14 bays. To left, a slightly recessed block, two bays, with windows to left and loft doors to right on all floors. Main block, to right, has regular fenestration. Left return, three bays, has pair of windows to left, and loft doors to right. At the rear, a square factory chimney with cornice and short coped upper stage, Office block at south comer, two storeys, single bay. Rounded comer, and on each side a single segment-arched plain sash on each floor.

Later extension to north-west, three storey with blue brick bands and ashlar dressings, Blue brick plinth, decorative eaves band and coped gables. 8 x 6 windows segment headed, those to upper floor smaller. Russell Street front has two gables with bracketed eaves, and top floor has three graduated windows to each floor. To left, along Gamble Street, a coped wall with double gateway, approximately 10m long, To right, along Newdigate Street, a similar wall with ashlar coping, approximately 25m long. Double gate to left, doorway to right.


Listing NGR: SK5623340475

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
470499
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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