Enfield House And Attached Area Wall

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NW LOW PAVEMENT 646-1/20/354 (South side) 11/08/52 No.18 Enfield House and attached area wall (Formerly Listed as: LOW PAVEMENT No.18)

GV II*

Town house, now offices, and area wall. Mid C18, with late C18 rear wing, converted late C20. Red brick with painted ashlar dressings and slate roof with coped gables and 2 gable stacks. Elaborate modillion eaves cornice. 3 storeys; 2 window range. On each floor, 2 Venetian windows, those to the ground floor with the central light breaking through a pediment. All have a central round-arched 12-pane sash and glazing bar sidelights. To right, steps up to a doorcase with dentillated pediment on Ionic columns. Round-arched opening with double keystone, fanlight, and renewed 6-panel door. Outside, a coped area wall with channelled rustication. INTERIOR: largely original, has a wooden dogleg stair with triple turned and twist balusters, ramped and scrolled handrail, and fielded panelled wainscot. Ground floor front rooms, linked by elliptical arch, have modillion cornice. Rear room has a moulded elliptical arched fireplace. Other rooms have cornices and blind arches. Several fielded 6-panel doors with various architraves. Roof structure largely renewed, with a pair of cruck trusses. Rock cut cellars, on 2 levels linked by a stone winder stair, have elliptical brick vaults, wine bins and thrawls. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 230).

Listing NGR: SK5737039675