Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE LUCKNOW AVENUE 646-1/4/364 (North West side) 12/07/72 Mapperley Hall

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Country house, now disused offices. Dated 1792 on rainwater head. For the Wright family, bankers. Raised and altered c1845. Additions 1889-90 by Robert Evans of Nottingham. Altered mid and late C20. Stucco, with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with various coped stacks. EXTERIOR: plinth, bands to each floor, eaves cornice and blocking course. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes. 3 storeys; 5 window range. Square plan, with 2 parallel rear wings flanking a courtyard. Main garden front has a slightly projecting centre under a pediment. Double flight of steps with renewed balustrade to landing, and side pedestals with lamps. Portico with pilasters and brackets to entablature. Panelled door flanked by plain sashes. All late C19. Above, a single reglazed window, and above again, a Venetian window, mid C19, with cornice and balcony on brackets. Side bays have 2 sashes on the lower floors, and tripartite sashes above. To right, a tripartite screen with projecting centre and Doric columns, probably the original entrance feature. Left return has irregular fenestration, with a canted bay window to right and a square bay window to left, mid and late C19. Right return has 4 reglazed French windows, and above, 5 glazing bar sashes. Above again, a tripartite sash flanked by single sashes. At the rear, to north, a square service building with pyramidal roof, linked by a curved corridor to the service wing. INTERIOR largely refitted late C20. On the ground floor, to left, a room with moulded plaster wall panels, Adam style frieze and dentillated cornice. Cornice in room to right. To rear, a room with modillion cornice. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 265).

Listing NGR: SK5763242220

External Links

• Mapperley Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q6754158

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  For the Record
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)