Number 72 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1952. Town house.

Number 72 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
silent-flint-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Nottingham
Constituency
Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1952
Type
Town house
Address
Number 72 and Attached Railings, St James' Street, City of Nottingham
OS grid reference
SK 569 397
Coordinates
52.95195, -1.15452
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 72 is a town house, now used as offices, with attached area railings. It dates from the late 18th century and was restored in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring a painted ashlar basement and dressings, topped with a concrete tile roof that has two gable stacks. It has a second floor sill band and a modillion eaves cornice with a triglyph frieze. The structure is four storeys tall plus a basement, with a four-window range. The windows are glazing bar sashes.

The ground floor has a rusticated stucco arcade, an off-centre beaded panelled door with a cast-iron fanlight, and windows adorned with stucco scallops in the tympana. The exterior includes wrought-iron area railings and a balustrade leading to the steps, all set on a rendered plinth. The first floor features baluster panels and bands below the windows, while the second floor has similar windows on a sill band. The third floor has smaller windows, all of which have panelled wedge lintels with double keystones.

At the rear, there is a central round-arched half-glazed door with a fanlight, flanked on the left by a 16-pane sash window and on the right by a blank wall. There are also two segmental light wells with wrought-iron railings. Above these, each floor has two glazing bar sashes and a blank segment-headed window. To the right, there is a set-back single bay with a round-arched ground floor window.

Local climate

Number 72 and Attached Railings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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