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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546220

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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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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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)