Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK53NE MAIN ROAD, Wilford 646-1/7/817 (East side) Dorothy Boot Homes and garden terrace wall

GV II

Eleven almshouses. 1908. Paid for by Jesse Boot of Nottingham. Brick, roughcast, with brick dressings and sham timber framing. Gabled and hipped plain tile roofs, with 8 ridge and 6 side wall stacks. Vernacular Revival style. Brick plinth, wrought-iron gutter brackets and bracket lamps. Windows are casements, with wooden mullions and transoms. Doors have round arches. Almshouses, single storey plus attics; 7 bays. Half-butterfly plan, with balanced irregular facades. Central block has a huge jettied gable, close studded, covering a verandah with 2 canted bay windows flanked by doorways. In the gable, 2 windows. On each side, 2 cross casements, and above, a large gabled dormer with 2 windows. Right range has to left a hipped porch covering a bay window and door, then a cross casement. Above, a large gabled dormer with 2 windows. To right, a hipped verandah covering a window. Left range has a central doorway flanked to right by a hipped porch with door and bay window, and to left by a cross casement. Above, a box dormer to left, and a gabled dormer to right. To left again, a square bay window, 2 storeys, 3-lights, with a flat roof. To left again, a projecting range, 2 bays, with to left a projecting wing with jettied timber-framed gable. Left return has a smaller projecting gable on posts. At the front, a terrace wall to a sunken garden, coursed squared stone, with pedestals and ball finials, some missing. These almshouses were intended for the use of Crimean War and Indian Mutiny veterans. (Wilford then and now: Mellors R: Nottingham: 1914-: 264).

Listing NGR: SK5672637572

External Links

• Wikidata Q26546220

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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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)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)