War Memorial, Retaining Wall and Railings at Memorial Nurses' Home is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. War memorial.

War Memorial, Retaining Wall and Railings at Memorial Nurses' Home

WRENN ID
iron-gable-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Nottingham
Constituency
Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1995
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial, Retaining Wall and Railings at Memorial Nurses' Home, Lenton Road, City of Nottingham
OS grid reference
SK 568 395
Coordinates
52.95055, -1.15553
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial, retaining wall, and railings at the Memorial Nurses' Home were built between 1921 and 1923, likely designed by the architects Evans, Cartwright & Woollett. The structure features an ashlar wall with a cast-iron railing and a bronze war memorial. The retaining wall is approximately 80 meters long and runs in a slight curve along the north side of Lenton Road, divided by pilasters and topped with a cast-iron railing.

To the left, there are three slightly projecting bays, also divided by pilasters, which contain a bronze plaque flanked by wreaths and torches, serving as the City and County war memorial. Beyond this, the wall steps back into the slope, and in front of it is a lower screen wall, around 20 meters long, featuring a central round-arched gateway flanked by rusticated piers.

Local climate

War Memorial, Retaining Wall and Railings at Memorial Nurses' Home 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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