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Brewhouse Yard Museum and Associated Caves

A Grade II Listed Building in Nottingham, City of Nottingham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9492 / 52°56'57"N

Longitude: -1.1529 / 1°9'10"W

OS Eastings: 457010

OS Northings: 339431

OS Grid: SK570394

Mapcode National: GBR LNQ.HX

Mapcode Global: WHDGZ.847C

Plus Code: 9C4WWRXW+MR

Entry Name: Brewhouse Yard Museum and Associated Caves

Listing Date: 11 August 1952

Last Amended: 30 November 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1246758

English Heritage Legacy ID: 455779

Also known as: Museum of Nottingham Life at Brewhouse Yard

ID on this website: 101246758

Location: Standard Hill, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG7

County: City of Nottingham

Electoral Ward/Division: Radford and Park

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Nottingham

Traditional County: Nottinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Nottinghamshire

Church of England Parish: Nottingham St Peter with St James

Church of England Diocese: Southwell and Nottingham

Tagged with: Brewery Museum Listed building in the United Kingdom

Description


NOTTINGHAM

SK5739SW CASTLE ROAD 646-1/23/121 (West side (off)) 11/08/52 Brewhouse Yard Museum and associated caves (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE ROAD Nos 5-8 (consec) Brewhouse Yard)

GV II

Includes: Nos.5-8 BREWHOUSE YARD. 4 houses, now museum, and associated caves. c1675, restored and converted 1977. Red brick, with moulded brick dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile roof. 4 ridge and single gable stacks, rebuilt. Plinth, first and second floor bands, coped gables. Windows are glazing bar casements mostly 2 lights, with brick flat arches and keystones. 2 storeys plus attics; 2:8:2 windows. Symmetrical front, with 3-gabled centre, 8 windows, flanked by gabled wings. Ground floor has slightly irregular fenestration, with 2 renewed doors. Gables have 3 single windows. Right wing has 2 windows, and a 5-light window in the gable. Left wing has similar fenestration, with a door to left, and a 4-light window to the gable. INTERIOR has exposed span beams and joists in most rooms. 2 original dogleg stairs with intersecting strings and turned balusters. At the rear, associated caves cut into the face of the Castle Rock. Various irregular chambers with brick reinforcement and infilling, and a square shaft to the surface. The caves are probably contemporary with the houses. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 236; Reprint from The Mercian Geologist, Vol. 13, Sept. 1992: Waltham AC: The sandstone caves of Nottingham: Nottingham: 1992-: 9).

Listing NGR: SK5701039431

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