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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539136

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)