People'S Hall

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NE HEATHCOAT STREET 646-1/21/254 (East side) 12/07/72 People's Hall

GV II*

2 houses, now club and shop. Dated 1750. Converted and altered 1854 for George Gill. Red brick, partly rendered, with painted ashlar dressings and slate roofs. EXTERIOR: main building, to right, has quoins, rendered plinth and parapet, first floor sill band and eaves band. 3 storeys; 5 window range. Regular fenestration, mid C19 plain sashes with wedge lintels and double keystones. Heavily rusticated central doorcase with double keystone and pediment, and panelled double doors. Right return has 3 gables, one rebuilt, and a round-arched doorway with fielded 6-panel door and fanlight. Rainwater head dated 1750. Lower building, to left, has rendered ground floor and second floor sill band. 3 storeys; 5 window range of C19 plain sashes with stone lintels. Above, 5 similar sashes with wedge lintels and double keystones. Above again, a double hipped clerestory roof. Ground floor has C20 door to left and 4 glazing bar sashes to right. INTERIOR has a good quality open well staircase, mid C18, with triple turned and twist balusters, cut string and ramped scrolled handrail. Panelled wainscot. Landing has wall panels and modillion cornice to ceiling with octagonal panel. 3 original 6-panel doors with pedimented doorcases. On the half-landing, a French window with sidelights. Ground floor has 2 rooms combined c1870. 3 walls with C18 fielded and enriched panelling and frieze, modillion cornice, and painted wooden fireplace with cornice and pedimented overmantel. On the first floor, a similar room with 3 original panelled walls and two fielded panelled doors with enriched friezes and cornices. Carved wooden fireplace and overmantel with broken pediment and enrichments. Adjoining room, mid C19, has a queen post truss roof with hipped clerestory. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 232).

Listing NGR: SK5766540002