Description

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SK5739SW
646-1/23/715

NOTTINGHAM
CASTLE WHARFE
The British Waterways Building

(Formerly listed as British Waterways warehouse to rear of Nos.17-23 (odd) (not included) WILFORD STREET)

II
Former canal warehouse, disused at time of listing, subsequently converted to apartments. c1919. Brick, with concrete basement, blue brick plinth and concrete dressings, and flat roof behind parapet. Plinth, second floor sill band, string course, chamfered brick eaves. Windows are metal framed glazing bar casements. Six storeys plus basement; twenty one windows, arranged 2:1:4:1:4:1:4:1:3. Wedge-shaped, with splayed front following the line of the canal. The two lower floors have two-light segment-arched windows, and between each pair, loft doors. Upper floors have similar fenestration, with flat-headed windows, and bays divided by pilasters.

Listing NGR: SK5718839289

External Links

• Wikidata Q26546849

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)