Park View Court And Attached Boundary Wall

Park View Court is a block of flats with an attached boundary wall, built in 1876 by Bakewell & Bromley of Nottingham. Alterations were made in 1976 and 1989. The building was constructed by Nottingham City Council to provide housing for council workers. It is built of brown brick with grey brick, blue brick and ashlar dressings, covered by slate roofs, and constructed in a Gothic Revival style. The building features a plinth, string courses, a cornice, a coped parapet with a central pedestal and datestone. The windows have been reglazed and have polychrome round heads on the first floor and segment heads above. Park View Court is four storeys high plus attics, with a ten by seven bay arrangement. It is U-shaped, comprising a front range with side wings that enclose a rear courtyard. A central section has four windows, and flanking this are staircase bays with steep pitched roofs, each containing a double pointed arched opening housing stairways with open landings. Square turrets with pyramidal spires are also present on each side, and further bays have single windows, leading to slightly projecting blank end bays. The returns to the building feature similar staircase bays and turrets towards the rear. A boundary wall runs along Bath Street, approximately 30 metres long and 1 metre high, forming an L-shape. The wall is built of brick with chamfered ashlar coping and square piers capped with pyramids. This building represents an early example of municipal housing.