Description

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ST5972 REDCLIFF STREET
901-1/42/234 (East side)
04/03/77 No.60
Ringer's Tobacco Factory
(Formerly Listed as:
REDCLIFF STREET
No.60)

II

Tobacco factory and offices. 1883. By H Crisp and HCM Hirst.
For Edwards, Ringer and Biggs, tobacco manufacturers. Snecked
Pennant rubble, with limestone and red Mansfield dressings,
stone and brick lateral stacks and a slate hipped roof.
Double-depth plan around a central atrium. Venetian Gothic and
French Empire styles with structural polychromy.
2 storeys; 15-window range. A symmetrical front has shallow,
pedimented centre and end bays defined by vermiculated
pilasters. A ground-floor arcade of semicircular arches with
coloured voussoirs, Mansfield shafts on rock-faced granite
pedestals, foliate capitals and C20 glazing; the central bay
has a wide stilted segmental arch and flanking smaller ones,
with rusticated spandrels; the end bays have similar ones,
that to the left with a cast-iron fanlight.
First-floor windows, spaced unevenly above the ground floor,
have flat ashlar surrounds and small balustrades above a band,
and a tripartite window in the middle, with a dentil cornice
above; dentilled string course and cornices beneath
second-floor windows with semicircular arches in ashlar
surrounds and keys, forming a Venetian window in the middle,
beneath a bracketed cornice and balustrade with ball finials.
The central pediment is above a smaller segmental pediment,
both with swag and cartouche in the tympana; steep pyramidal
roofs to the pedimented bays, with a widow's walk to the
centre. Side elevations of brick with stone lintels and bands
of black brick.
INTERIOR: entrance hall with a lateral dogleg stair, a central
glazed atrium on attached corbelled cast-iron shafts with
water-leaf capitals, and rear cast-iron stairs.

Listing NGR: ST5911372510

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498085

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