Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5740SW SHAKESPEARE STREET
646-1/14/546 (North side)
No.50
Registry Office and attached area
wall and railings
GV II
Former Poor Law offices, now Registry Office, and attached
area wall and railings. 1886-87. By AH Goodall, built by Kent
& Johnson. Converted mid C20 and altered late C20. Red brick
with ashlar dressings and pink granite columns, and
Westmorland slate roofs, gabled and hipped. Italian Gothic
Revival style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor sill band, main cornice. Windows
are plain sashes, round and segment-headed, flanked by shafts
on the main fronts. 2 storeys plus basement and attics. 2 x 7
windows. Corner site, with main and return fronts linked by a
towered corner feature.
Canted corner tower, 3 stages, has ornamented cornice and
parapet, and octagonal spire roof. On each floor, 5 arcaded
windows, the ground floor segment-headed.
Shakespeare Street front has 2 closely set projecting bays
topped with through-eaves dormers under coped gables. Entrance
bay, to right, has a stone doorcase with round-arched opening
and cornice, and late C20 canopy. Above, a single window. Left
bay has paired windows, the ground floor segment-arched.
Right return, to Shakespeare Villas, has a gabled off-centre
bay with a massive 4 window oriel, on the first floor, with
brackets and balcony. Single window below and paired window
above, To left, 2 narrow bays with irregular fenestration. To
right, a minor range, 4 windows, with machicolated cornice.
Second window converted to a door, mid C20. At the rear, a
square chimney in the form of a campanile.
Outside, to the corner and right return, a coped area wall
topped with the original wrought-iron railing.
INTERIOR has entrance hall with granite pilasters, and open
well cantilever stone stair with wrought-iron balustrade and
wooden handrail. Landing and main first floor rooms have
cornices and pedimented doorcases.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 238).
Listing NGR: SK5703340405
