Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NE HIGH PAVEMENT
646-1/21/276 (South side)
12/07/72 Former Police Station adjoining
Shire Hall

GV II*

Police station, now offices. 1905. Ashlar with ashlar
dressings. Roof not visible. Baroque Revival style.
Granite plinth, rusticated ground floor, first floor sill
band, giant Doric angle pilasters to the upper floors,
entablature topped by parapet. 3 storeys; 5 window range of
plain sashes. Central round-arched granite doorcase with
double doors, flanked by pairs of windows with tall projecting
keystones. Above, 5 windows in moulded surrounds, with
brackets supporting pediments filled with raised double
keystones. Above again, five 16-pane sashes in moulded
surrounds with corniced keystones. Angled end bays have a
single window on each floor. To left, an elliptical arched
carriage opening with voussoirs and cast-iron double gates,
and above, a bridge to the adjoining Shire Hall (qv), with
sill band and cornice, and a single window with brackets to a
segmental cornice filled with a raised double keystone.
(Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: The Shire Hall and old
County Gaol, Nottingham: Nottingham: 5).

Listing NGR: SK5756239612

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553827

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)