Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5640SE CLARENDON STREET 646-1/13/153 (South East side) 12/07/72 Nos.50-64 (Even) Terrace Royal, Nottingham Trent University (Formerly Listed as: CLARENDON STREET Nos.50-64 (Even))

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Terrace of 8 town houses, now university offices, and attached steps. Dated 1863, restored late C20. Red brick, with limestone ashlar and blue lias stone dressings, and steep pitched slate roof. 4 ridge and 2 gable stacks, with quoins and coping. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, quoins, ground floor impost band, dogtooth eaves band with gargoyles. Casement windows in Gothic stone surrounds of different styles on each floor. Ground floor has pointed arches and carved heads, upper floors have shouldered openings. 3 storeys plus attics; 16 x 3 windows. 4 projecting entrance bays with coped gables. Each bay has a double doorway with cusped pointed arched heads, shafts, and spandrels with naturalistic carving, under a hood mould and relieving arch. Pointed arched inner doors, half-glazed, in moulded surrounds. Outside, stone steps with brick balustrade walls and ashlar copings. Above, 2 single lancets on each floor, and a crest in the gable. On each side, a 2-light window on each floor. Attics have eight C20 box dormers. Left return to Goldsmith Street, 3 storeys plus basement and attics, has a gable to right with a canted bay window, 2 storeys plus basement, and to its left, a square projection with 2-light windows. Set back bay to left, also with paired windows, and return gable with single windows flanking an external stack. INTERIOR has some original wooden staircases and moulded plaster cornices.

Listing NGR: SK5675440450

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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