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))

II

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561010

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