Cherwell House

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NE OXFORD STREET 646-1/19/463 (South West side) 12/07/72 No.10 Cherwell House

GV II

House, now offices. c1859. By TC Hine of Nottingham. Restored late C20. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with stylised gable, valley and rear wall stacks. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, moulded brick eaves. Corner site. 2 storeys plus basement and attics; 3 window range. Windows in various Gothic patterns, with stone surrounds and mullions. Central doorway with traceried pointed arched head and hood mould, and steps to recessed fielded panelled door with sidelights. Above, a 2-light shouldered window, and above again, a gabled dormer with 2 round-headed lights. To left, a canted ashlar and brick bay window, with 3 plain sashes and side lights under a traceried balustrade. Above, 3 trefoil headed lights, and above again, a through-eaves dormer with 2 round-headed lights. To right, a bay window, 2 storeys plus basement, with 4 mullioned lights to the basement and 2 segment-arched plain sashes to the ground floor. Canted ashlar upper stage has 5 shouldered lights. Right return has 2 gables, the left with a segment-arched plain sash, and above it, a shouldered 3-light window. Above again, a graduated trefoil-headed window, 3-lights. Set back right gable has similar fenestration with 2-light upper windows. Rear has 2 gables and external stack. 2 central mullioned stair windows. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 33).

Listing NGR: SK5667039864