Railway Goods Offices And Adjoining Covered Platforms, Gate Piers And Railings

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739SW CARRINGTON STREET 646-1/23/88 (West side) Railway goods offices & adjoining covered platforms, gate piers & railings

GV II

Railway goods offices and adjoining area railings, boundary wall, gate piers and covered platforms. 1875, altered 1991-93. Gate piers 1848. Office building, red brick and ashlar with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof. 4 corniced ashlar stacks. First floor string course, dentillated eaves cornice, coped parapet. Italianate style, with polychrome banded front and rusticated ground floor. 2 storeys plus basement; 5 x 2 windows. Basement has 4 blocked windows with continuous granite lintels. Central projecting porch with segment-arched opening and original double doors. On each side, 2 segment-arched cross mullioned windows with keystones. Above, a round-arched plain sash flanked by 2 pairs of similar windows, all with label moulds and impost band. Returns have similar fenestration without ornament. Outside, a cast-iron area railing with ashlar plinth and square piers. Beyond, to right, a curved boundary wall, ashlar, with plinth and gabled coping. At the right end, a gateway with a pair of square ashlar piers with renewed stepped caps topped with lamps. These are said to be the gate piers of the original station of 1848. On each side of the office building, covered platforms with hipped steel and cast-iron roof structures, formerly glazed.

Listing NGR: SK5736939240