Clarendon Chambers

NOTTINGHAM

SK5640SE CLARENDON STREET 646-1/13/152 (East side) No.32 Clarendon Chambers

GV II

Formerly known as: Royal Midland Institute for the Blind CLARENDON STREET. Royal Midland Institute for the Blind, now offices and workshops. Dated 1853. By Aicken & Capes of London. Addition dated 1905. Rear addition c1899. Restored and converted late C20. Red brick and ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with crested ridge tiles. Renaissance Revival style. EXTERIOR: quoins, first floor band, eaves cornice, shaped coped gables with finials. Windows are mainly casements with wooden cross mullions. 2 storeys; 7 x 8 windows. L-plan, on corner site, with an elaborate corner pavilion and symmetrical facades with minor variations. Corner pavilion has 2 identical fronts. Ashlar ground floor with rusticated quoins and 3 round-arched windows with keystones. Above, a canted oriel window under a shaped gable. Clarendon Street front has a central block, 3 windows, with a central gable. On each side, a projecting bay with single windows. Right bay has a doorway, left bay a ground floor window, both segment-headed. To left, a projecting end bay balancing the corner pavilion, with single 3-light windows. Basement has various windows, some with stone flush mullions. Addition, to left, has 3 openings on each floor, coped gable and finial. Ground floor windows are cross mullioned casements with artificial stone surrounds. Second floor has a larger round-arched central window with voussoirs. Chaucer Street front has a central block, 3 windows, with central gable, flanked by single projecting bays with segment-headed ground floor windows. To right, a projecting end bay with single 3-light windows. Rear addition, 3 and 4 storeys, L-plan, forms the west and north sides of a courtyard. At the east end, a projecting corner block, 4 storeys, 3 windows, with shaped gables and finials. INTERIOR has moulded cornices in ground floor rooms. (White's Directory of Nottingham: 1864-: 156).

Listing NGR: SK5672040322