Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NE ST JAMES' STREET
646-1/19/580 (North West side)
11/08/52 No.64
Sheriff House
(Formerly Listed as:
ST JAMES' STREET
No.64)

GV II*

Town house, now offices. For Cornelius Launder, High Sheriff
in 1775, who lived there 1768-1806. Red brick, with painted
ashlar dressings, rendered plinth and parapet. Slate roof with
2 rendered side wall stacks.
EXTERIOR: plinth, first and second floor bands and sill bands,
modillion eaves cornice and pediment, parapet with balustrade
panels. 3 storeys; 3 window range of glazing bar sashes with
brick flat arches. Second floor windows are smaller.
Projecting centre, 3 windows, with a full height round-arched
recess. Doorcase with open pediment on consoles, with
round-arched 6-panel door and wrought-iron fanlight. Above, a
window framed with the door, with pseudo-balustrade and
cornice on brackets. Above again, a Diocletian window. To
right, a round-arched passage doorway with wrought-iron
fanlight.
Symmetrical rear elevation, 5 windows, with renewed central
door and sidelights with Gothic traceried fanlight. Above, a
central Venetian window, and above again, a Diocletian window.
INTERIOR: altered c1800, has central entrance hall, stair well
and landing with modillion cornices, ceiling rosettes, and
Adam style cartouches. Original dogleg stair with paired
turned and twist balusters. Dogleg minor staircases have
turned and cast-iron balusters. Left ground floor room has
dentillated cornice, wall panels and replica fireplace. Left
first floor room has wooden framed wall panels, modillion
cornice with triglyph frieze, and heavily enriched original
fireplace with overmantel mirror. 2 enriched pedimented
doorcases with 6-panel doors, and enriched shouldered window
architraves. Right first floor room in a plainer version of
the same style. Remaining rooms have cornices and 4 and 6
panelled doors.
Elliptical arched brick cellars with wine bins, and rock cut
cellar at lower level.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 236-237).

Listing NGR: SK5692639748

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Sheriff House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17553904

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)