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Latitude: 52.9594 / 52°57'33"N
Longitude: -1.1565 / 1°9'23"W
OS Eastings: 456758
OS Northings: 340562
OS Grid: SK567405
Mapcode National: GBR LMM.Q8
Mapcode Global: WHDGS.6WJ3
Plus Code: 9C4WXR5V+QC
Entry Name: Waverley Building, Nottingham Trent University
Listing Date: 12 July 1972
Last Amended: 30 November 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1270408
English Heritage Legacy ID: 459060
ID on this website: 101270408
Location: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1
County: City of Nottingham
Electoral Ward/Division: Arboretum
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Nottingham
Traditional County: Nottinghamshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Nottinghamshire
Church of England Parish: Nottingham St Peter with St James
Church of England Diocese: Southwell and Nottingham
Tagged with: University building
NOTTINGHAM
SK54SE WAVERLEY STREET
646-1/4/701 (North East side)
12/07/72 Waverley Building, Nottingham Trent
University
(Formerly Listed as:
WAVERLEY STREET
Waverley Annexe to Trent Polytechnic)
II
Formerly known as: College of Art & Design WAVERLEY STREET.
Art college, now university building. 1863-65. By Frederick
Bakewell of Nottingham. Altered mid C20. Ashlar, with pink
granite columns, encaustic tile frieze, and slate roof.
Italianate style.
Rockfaced plinth, rusticated ground floor and rebated quoins,
minor cornice, modillion eaves cornice with brackets. Replica
balustrade with pedestals. 2 storeys plus basement; 3:1:3
bays. Windows are casements. Central square tower porch, 2
storeys, with unglazed openings on each floor. Above, a square
tower with traceried windows, square dome with fish-scale
tiles, clock faces, and turret finial. On each side, 3
windows, those to the ground floor plain. First floor has
shafts and moulded surrounds to the windows, with portrait
medallions of artists and architect on the quoins.
Returns have a central panelled and coped stack, flanked by
single windows on each floor.
INTERIOR remodelled mid C20, with concrete return flight
staircase.
The college was established to encourage design in lace, etc.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 239).
Listing NGR: SK5675840562
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