The Rose Of England Public House

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SK5740SW 646-1/14/368 12/07/72

NOTTINGHAM MANSFIELD ROAD (East side) No.38 The Rose of England Public House

(Formerly listed as No.38 The Filly and Firkin Public House)

(Formerly Listed as: MANSFIELD ROAD No.38 The Yorker Public House)

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Formerly known as: No.38 The Yorker Public House MANSFIELD ROAD. Public house and associated caves. 1898. By Watson Fothergill of Nottingham for the Nottingham Brewery Co., whose brewery was alongside. Altered late C20. Red brick. Timber-framed second floor with red brick nogging. Blue brick and ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, arcaded band to ground floor, string courses, crowstepped gable. Ground floor and first floor have mainly cross casements with stone mullions and transoms. Second floor has wooden cross casements with leaded lights. 3 storeys plus attics; 3 x 1 windows. Corner site, with corner feature in the form of a squat octagonal tower with spire roof and finial. The tower has a gabled corner porch with traceried bargeboard and double doors, flanked by cross mullioned windows. Above, a blank bay flanked to left by a hipped oriel window, 3 lights, and to right by a similar window set flush. Second floor has 3 cross casements. Above again, 2 hipped dormers with finials. To right, an elaborate coped side wall stack. Left return, to Mansfield Road, 2 windows, has a door to left. On the first floor, 2 hipped oriel windows. Above, a recessed wooden balcony with latticework balustrade, covering 2 windows. Attics have 2 hipped dormers. Right return, 2 storeys plus attics, has a mullioned window and above, 3 small single windows. Above again, late C20 box dormer. INTERIOR altered mid and late C20, retaining cross beam ceilings and cornices. The rock-hewn cellars form part of an extensive cave system on the east side of Mansfield Road, formerly part of the Nottingham Brewery. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 9; Reprint from The Mercian Geologist, Vol. 13, Sept. 1992: Waltham AC: The sandstone caves of Nottingham: Nottingham: 1992-: 14; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 241).

Listing NGR: SK5728140433