Nottingham Womens' Centre and Chaucer Court Workshops is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. A C1890 Workshops. 1 related planning application.
Nottingham Womens' Centre and Chaucer Court Workshops
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-loft-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Workshops
- Address
- Nottingham Womens' Centre and Chaucer Court Workshops, 30, Chaucer Street, City of Nottingham, NG1 5LP
- OS grid reference
- SK 567 403
- Coordinates
- 52.95722, -1.15641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nottingham Women's Centre and Chaucer Court Workshops are workshops that were formerly part of the Royal Midland Institute for the Blind. They were built around 1890, with an addition made around 1910 by A.N. Bromley of Nottingham. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring ashlar and terracotta dressings, and has slate roofs. It has a coped gable and two coped ridge stacks, and consists of two storeys plus a basement and attics, with a total of 11 windows (7 on the main block and 4 on the addition).
The windows are primarily casements with stone mullions and transoms. The main block on the left is designed in the Jacobean Revival style, with a rock-faced stone basement, a first-floor band, and an eaves cornice. There is a square tower porch on the left, which has three stages and a pyramidal spire. The entrance features a round-arched design with double doors, and above it is a canted oriel window with four lights. Above this, there are two round-arched blind openings separated by a pilaster. To the right of the main block, there are six windows on each floor, with segment-arched openings in the basement and two gabled dormers with finials.
The addition on the right is designed to harmonise with the main block in style and materials. It features a slightly projecting entrance bay with a coped gable and finial, which includes a panelled double door with an overlight and sidelights, all set in an ashlar surround with a pediment. Above this entrance, there is a four-light window with stained glass, and a smaller four-light window above it. In the gable, there is a three-light window. To the right of the addition, there are two windows on the ground floor and basement, followed by a round-arched cart entrance that is two storeys high and features voussoirs. Above this entrance, there are three windows and, above them, three wooden gabled dormers.
Local climate
Nottingham Womens' Centre and Chaucer Court Workshops sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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